Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, March 20, 2019 (ENS) – A federal judge late Tuesday rejected the lease of certain public lands for fracking and ordered a halt to drilling on more than 300,000 acres in Wyoming until the Bureau of Land Management accounts for the impacts of such fracking on the […]
Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, July 4, 2017 (ENS) – A federal appeals court has ruled that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency does not have the authority to suspend a rule restricting methane emissions from new oil and gas wells imposed during the Obama administration. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2017/07/04/court-epa-must-enforce-obama-methane-emissions-limit/
Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, May 11, 2017 (ENS) – By a slim margin, the U.S. Senate voted Wednesday to uphold an Obama-era regulation to control the the venting and flaring of the potent greenhouse gas methane from oil and gas wells on public lands. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2017/05/11/obama-era-methane-waste-rule-withstands-senate-attack/