Pennsylvania High Court Partially Affirms, Reverses Fracking Injunction

Mealey's (June 4, 2018, 2:54 PM EDT) -- HARRISBURG, Pa. — A divided Pennsylvania Supreme Court on June 1 partially affirmed and partially reversed preliminary injunctive relief granted by a lower court in a hydraulic fracturing dispute between the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and a fracking industry advocacy group that had argued that the state’s oil and gas regulations, referred to as Chapter 78, are “unlawful, illegal, void and unenforceable for various reasons” (Marcellus Shale Coalition v. Department of Environmental Protection of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, et al., 115 MAP 2016, Pa. Sup.)....