Group: Federal Agency Wrongly Approved Injection Of Fracking Waste Into Aquifer

(November 22, 2019, 11:34 AM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — The Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) on Nov. 21 sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and its administrator in California federal court, seeking declaratory and injunctive relief for alleged failure to comply with federal law when it exempted an aquifer from the protections of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) to allow the injection of hydraulic fracturing wastewater and other fluids into the aquifer (Center for Biological Diversity v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, et al., No. 19-7664, N.D. Calif.)....

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