"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.

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Though all of these strange bedfellows mark a rare confluence of support, some regulatory entities are reopening the books on hydraulic fracturing and regional lawmakers in New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Colorado are gunning for it.

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