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Court strikes down Obama fracking rules for public lands

2016-06-23 01:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: A federal judge has struck down the Obama administration's rules for hydraulic fracturing on public lands, a victory for oil and gas producers and state regulators who opposed the rules as an egregious overreach. The ruling, which the White House vowed to appeal, halts the administration's efforts to address what it sees as safety concerns in the industry and reverses what producers had seen as a first step toward full federal regulation of all fracking activity. The U.S. Interior Department's...

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Obama Appointee Strikes Down Obama Administration's Fracking Regs

2016-06-22 21:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Portalemida: The rules would require the disclosure of ingredients used by the petroleum developers to improve the results of fracking. A federal judge struck down the Obama administration's signature effort to regulate hydraulic fracturing on public lands, putting another of the president's environmental initiatives in legal limbo months before he leaves office. In an order signed Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Scott Skavdahl said the U.S. Bureau of Land Management can't set the rules because Congress has...

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Obama-Nominated Judge Strikes Down Fracking Rule

2016-06-22 13:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

US News: An Obama-appointed federal judge Tuesday rebuked one of the administration's first and most visible efforts to implement new environmental regulations for hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the oil and gas drilling technique that helped unleash the nation's energy boom. Judge Scott Skavdahl, of the U.S. District Court of Wyoming, found an Interior Department rule released in March 2015 exceeded the administration's executive authority, siding with Republican critics who saw the regulation as overreach...

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