Lawsuit Forces Government To Disclose Extent Of Offshore Fracking In Gulf of Mexico

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By Farron CousinsJun 7, 2015, 11:38 am200 pts
In August of last year, 21.6 million acres of the Gulf of Mexico were auctioned off to the dirty energy industry so that they could expand their offshore fracking activities in an area that was still reeling from the effects of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. As DeSmog’s Steve Horn reported at that…

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