United States Eleventh Circuit

Under Section 1425 of the Safe Drinking Water Act, 42 USC 300h-4(a), the process of hydraulic fracturing to recover methane gas from underground coal deposits "relates to" the "secondary and tertiary recovery of oil or natural gas".

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/21/2001
• Published 12/21/2001

Judges

• BLACK, Circuit Judge:, Before BLACK and MARCUS, Circuit Judges, and HANCOCK, District Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David A. Ludder,Legal Environmental Assistance Foundation, Tallahassee, FL, for Petitioner., Scott B. Smith, Bradley, Arant, Rose & White, Birmingham, AL, for Amicus Curiae Coalbed Methane Ass'n., James Berry St. John, Jr., Liskow & Lewis, New Orleans, LA, for Amicus Curiae American Petroleum Institute., Craig Wyman, Liskow & Lewis, New Orleans, LA, Robert F. Van Voorhees, Bryan, Cave, LLP, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Christopher S. Vaden, Dept. of Justice Environmental Protection Agency, Joshua Emerson Swift, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, DC, Strudwick Marvin Rogers, Asst. Atty. Gen., Office of State Oil & Gas Bd., Tuscaloosa, AL, Andrew Robert Greene, Bradley, Arant, Rose & White, LLP, Birmingham, AL, for Respondent.