Waterkeeper Alliance: Legal Protest Blasts Plan for 430 Square Miles of Fracking Leases in Wyoming
November 16, 2020
November 16, 2020
NEW YORK, Nov. 16 -- Waterkeeper Alliance issued the following news release:
Citing harm to wildlife, clean air, and the climate, conservation groups filed a legal protest over the weekend challenging a Trump administration plan approving the sale of fracking leases on 275,000 acres of public lands in Wyoming. Fracking those leases would destroy habitat for greater sage-grouse, worsen air quality and cause up to 43 million tons of climate pollution -- as much as a coal-fired power p . . .
Citing harm to wildlife, clean air, and the climate, conservation groups filed a legal protest over the weekend challenging a Trump administration plan approving the sale of fracking leases on 275,000 acres of public lands in Wyoming. Fracking those leases would destroy habitat for greater sage-grouse, worsen air quality and cause up to 43 million tons of climate pollution -- as much as a coal-fired power p . . .