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Key federal courts are backing activists in suits under the National Environmental; Policy Act (NEPA) to review the impacts of natural gas drilling fluids on underground aquifers, rulings that environmentalists hope will bolster pending bills to restore EPA’s Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) authority to oversee hydraulic fracturing—a controversial gas drilling procedure that requires injection of chemicals into wells.
... The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit -- which includes key gas drilling states of Oklahoma, Wyoming, Kansas, Colorado, Utah and New Mexico -- in April ruled in State of New Mexico ex rel. v. Bureau of Land Management that the bureau must conduct further analysis under NEPA of the drilling activities covered by its resource management plan for the Otera Mesa region, including providing more evidence that drilling would not,harm the aquifer.
Meanwhile a federal district court in Colorado September 3 granted environmentalists’ request for a preliminary injunction to block exploratory oil and gas drilling in Baca National Wildlife Refuge until the resolution of the case…
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