Judge tossed lawsuit over fracking ban in June
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(Reuters) - A pair of Pennsylvania state senators on Monday appealed in Philadelphia federal court a lower court ruling that tossed their lawsuit accusing the Delaware River Basin Commission, a federal interstate agency, of usurping the state s legislative power with a regulation that bans fracking in the river s watershed.
The ban is considered a win for environmental activists and a defeat to owners who would have liked to profit from the natural gas below their properties.