The four-state commission charged with regulating the Delaware River watershed has unconstitutionally imposed a “moratorium” on fracking in parts of Pennsylvania, two leaders in the state Senate have alleged in a lawsuit seeking to open up thousands of square miles of land within the basin to unconventional natural gas well projects.

On Monday, Sen. Gene Yaw, R-Lycoming, who is chairman of the Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee, and Sen. Lisa Baker, R-Luzerne, who is the majority chairwoman of the Pennsylvania Senate Judiciary Committee, sued the Delaware River Basin Commission in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Damascus Township, which is located in Wayne County, also joined the senators as plaintiffs suing the commission.

This content has been archived. It is available through our partners, LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law.

To view this content, please continue to their sites.

Not a Lexis Subscriber?
Subscribe Now

Not a Bloomberg Law Subscriber?
Subscribe Now

Why am I seeing this?

LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law are third party online distributors of the broad collection of current and archived versions of ALM's legal news publications. LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law customers are able to access and use ALM's content, including content from the National Law Journal, The American Lawyer, Legaltech News, The New York Law Journal, and Corporate Counsel, as well as other sources of legal information.

For questions call 1-877-256-2472 or contact us at [email protected]