Fracking Waste Lawsuit Highlights Dangerous Trend of Corporations Targeting Community Rights Defenders

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By DeSmogBlogJan 18, 2018, 11:07 am87 pts
By Simon Davis-Cohen In early January, a federal judge ordered the nonprofit law firm Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) to pay $52,000 to an oil and gas exploration company for defending a rural Pennsylvania township's ban on underground injections of fracking waste. This sanction comes at the…

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