Feds rebuff AG’s hydrofracking lawsuit threat

Despite facing the threat of a lawsuit from Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said it will not—and can not—take up a study of the effects of hydraulic fracturing in the Delaware River basin.

Schneiderman threatened to sue the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers by May 18 if it didn’t move to halt the rulemaking process for natural-gas drilling and hydrofracking in the Delaware River basin, which includes parts of Broome, Delaware, Chenango and Ulster counties as well as the western part of the New York City watershed.

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