Groups Sue To Block California BLM Leases Over Fracturing Fears

摘要

Leases issued during the Obama administration that cover more than 1 million acres in Central California to oil drilling and fracturing stimulation are under attack. Several anti-development groups, including the Center for Biological Diversity and Natural Resources Defense Council, are suing the reopening of the leases because, they say, the Bureau of Land Management failed to consider fracturing's possible impacts on public health and the environment.