Legislators: Environmentalists Lack Standing In River Basin Fracking Case

Mealey's (February 25, 2021, 1:11 PM EST) -- PHILADELPHIA — Two Pennsylvania state senators and the Pennsylvania Senate Republican Caucus on Feb. 23 filed a brief in a Pennsylvania federal court contending that an environmental group should not be permitted to intervene as a defendant in the legislators’ hydraulic fracturing lawsuit related to the moratorium on fracking in the Delaware River Basin (DRB) because the group lacks “a protectable legal interest sufficient to warrant intervention.”...