Federal Government Shrugs Off Threat to Climate, Groundwater, Wildlife Habitat in Wayne National Forest
ATHENS, Ohio—(ENEWSPF)–February 14, 2017. Conservation groups this week filed an administrative protest challenging a Bureau of Land Management oil and gas lease auction slated for Ohio’s Wayne National Forest. The protest takes aim at the Bureau’s refusal to adequately analyze the impacts of fracking on climate change, water quality and endangered species.
“Our protest challenges the Bureau’s disturbing practice of favoring fracking industry…
