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A Win for the Pacific Ocean at the Supreme Court

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The Supreme Court refused to hear a challenge from the American Petroleum Institute to allow fracking and acidizing from offshore oil rigs. California's attorney general, Rob Bonta, joined the EDC's case under Kamala Harris in 2016. The EDC uncovered an increasing number of fracking andacidizing permits among the boxes of papers they'd dug through via a Freedom of Information Act request.

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The Santa Barbara Independent

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A Win for the Pacific Ocean at the Supreme Court

Santa Barbara’s Environmental Defense Center caught a big win this Monday for the Pacific Ocean habitat and all who live in it when the Supreme Court refused to hear a challenge from the American Petroleum Institute to allow fracking and acidizing from offshore oil rigs. “The funny thing is,” said Maggie Hall, a senior attorney with the Environmental Defense Center (EDC), “the American Petroleum Institute didn’t take this to the Supreme Court on…

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