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Lawsuit Over Fracking Plan for Ohio’s Only National Forest Expanded
COLUMBUS, Ohio— Conservation groups today expanded a lawsuit challenging a U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management plan to permit fracking in Ohio’s only national forest. The groups are challenging a new 1,147-acre March 2017 lease sale in Wayne National Forest and adding claims that the federal fracking plans violate the Endangered Species Act, threatening animals in the forest and downstream. “Federal officials should not be putting corporate...