Reuters: Environmental groups sued the state of California on Tuesday in an effort to stop hydraulic fracturing as regulators attempt to devise new rules for the controversial oil and gas extraction practice.
The lawsuit accuses the regulator, the California Department of Conservation, Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources, with failing to evaluate the risks, even though fracking was used for 600 wells in the state last year.
Fracking, or pumping chemical-laced water and sand into a well to......
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Groups Sue California Over Lack of Fracking Regulations
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 16th, 2012
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