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Two conservation groups sued the Trump administration over its interpretation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA), a law that onshore oil and natural gas producers try to follow as they look to minimize the impact their operations have on several bird species, including the greater sage grouse and the lesser prairie chicken.

While tipping its hat to natural gas, the third annual energy report released Thursday by the New York City-based Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) said renewable energy use is at a historic high and poised for even greater advances.

The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has sent a letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Mid-Atlantic office, imploring it to shut down two Class II injection wells operated by a West Virginia-based company that NRDC alleges have not been properly regulated by the state.

The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), a prominent environmental group, has filed a petition with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) asking it to reopen its 1988 determination that the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) was not appropriate for regulating oil and natural gas drilling fluids and produced waters.

The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), a prominent environmental group, filed a petition with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) earlier this month asking it to reopen its 1988 determination that the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) was not appropriate for regulating oil and natural gas drilling fluids and produced waters.