Environmental Groups Urge Feds to Reject Gas Drilling Project in North Bay Wetland

Local political leaders and a dozen Bay Area environmental groups are urging the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to reject a permit proposal for an exploratory natural gas drilling project in Suisun Marsh... In a Feb. 26 letter opposing the project sent to the Army Corps of Engineers on behalf of a dozen environmental groups — including the Sierra Club and San Francisco Baykeeper — Center for Biological Diversity senior attorney Hollin Kretzmann detailed the potential environmental damage the project could inflict on the marsh's delicate habitat and on surrounding communities.