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Del. River Commission Can t End Fracking Ban Suit Yet
Law360 (January 6, 2021, 7:09 PM EST) A Pennsylvania federal judge ruled on Wednesday that the Delaware River Basin Commission can t prevail just yet in a landowner group s challenge to its fracking ban, finding that ambiguity still clouds the scope of the commission s oversight.
U.S. District Judge Robert D. Mariani said it wasn t the right time to grant the commission s bid for a declaration that the Wayne Land & Mineral Group LLC s planned fracking activity a controversial process that uses pressurized liquid to fracture rock in order to release natural gas amounted to a project that falls within the commission s oversight and is thus subject to the.