Peru didn't have an environment ministry until 2008 and the mining and energy ministry remains in charge of approving environmental impact statement for the extractive industries.

NPR: Peru Declares Amazon Oil Contamination Emergency

An Environmental Impact Statement based on that and the Hawaii research will be published soon in the Federal Register.

CNN: waves

"Regardless of this firm's expertise on purely technical matters unrelated to policy formation, Ecology and Environment's participation in a trade association and lobbying effort in support of authorizing high-volume hydraulic fracturing in New York fundamentally disqualifies the firm and its work" for the DEC environmental impact study, Russ Haven of the New York Public Interest Research Group said in a statement released Wednesday.

WSJ: NY groups claim industry bias in fracking study