The Supreme Court refused to hear a challenge on Monday to a court order banning fracking off California’s coast, delivering a blow to oil companies, which argued that the moratorium would undermine oil and gas development on the Outer Continental Shelf.
The decision lets stand a June 2022 decision from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which sided with the state of California and several environmental groups in ruling that the federal government had violated various environmental laws, including the National Environmental Policy Act, the Endangered Species Act, and the Coastal Zone Management Act, when it allowed fracking and acidizing extraction practices in federal waters off California’s coast.
“If allowed to stand, the decision below will undermine the development of oil, natural gas and renewable energy on the entire Outer Continental Shelf,” they said. Environmentalists had argued that offshore fracking is dangerous to whales, sea otters, and other marine wildlife in the area.
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