center biological diversity announce major lawsuit bureau ocean energy management lawsuit settle u.s. district court los angeles lawsuit put moratorium fracking occur coast california may future importance determine fate shore fracking gulf coast halt offshore fracking huge victory california coastal environment say kristen monsell center attorney offshore fracking dirty dangerous practice absolutely place ocean federal government certainly right give oil industry free rein frack offshore lot attention pay fracking go people backyards stable anyone see infamous fire faucet gasland hear increase number earthquakes fracking relate activity cause concern back yard may huge boom offshore fracking put north america coast danger america coast virtual free-for-all fracking industry.the fracking industry permission federal government dump billion gallons waste water fracking operations ocean wastewater come 200 oil platforms find coast california waste water contain chemicals fracking process unfortunately chemicals commonly use fracking process consider trade secrets make public able find chemicals use every offshore frack put coastal communities marine wildlife risk dangerous chemicals another devastate oil spill monsell say federal officials take hard look dangers conclude offshore fracking far big gamble oceans life-support systems stop authorize good might bite optimistic say settlement lead complete end federal authorization offshore fracking however new requirements fracking industry go order get authorization substantial major paperwrench fracking industry least delay new offshore fracking operations.featured image credit ken lund cc by-sa 2.0 via wikimedia commons fractivists claim victory fracking danger probably never hear