Joint Landowners Coalition of New York v. Cuomo

ELR Citation: 44 ELR 20165
No(s). 843-2014 (N.Y. Sup. Ct. Jul 11, 2014)

A New York court dismissed mineral rights owners' lawsuit seeking to compel the state to finalize its supplemental EIS on hydraulic fracturing. The owners filed the lawsuit under the State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA), claiming that the state's failure to finalize the standards for high-...