RULINGS STRENGTHEN NEPA OVERSIGHT OF GAS DRILLING ABSENT SDWA RULE

摘要

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 activists 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.