The Interior Department violated federal law in improperly finding that little environmental impact would occur in offshore fracking, California said in a Dec. 19 lawsuit (California v. Dep’t of Interior, C.D. Cal., 2:16-cv-09352, filed 12/19/16).
A court must halt the Interior Department’s environmental assessment approving advanced well stimulation treatments on 22 platforms off of the California coast, the lawsuit said. The federal agency violated the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requirements in its “finding of no significant impact.”
“Defendants also violated NEPA by relying on unfounded assumptions rather than taking a ‘hard look’ at the ...
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