ELR Citation: 43 ELR 20076
No(s). C 11-06174 PSG (N.D. Cal. Mar 31, 2013) (Grewal, J.)

A district court held that BLM violated NEPA when it sold four oil and gas leases on approximately 2,700 acres of federal land in Monterey and Fresno counties without considering impacts from hydraulic fracturing. The leases are located in California's Monterey Shale Formation, which is estimated to...