Lower courts ruled that fracking for oil and gas in the Pacific Ocean could pose a threat to marine life.Gas is flared off from a flame boom aboard offshore oil and gas platform Edith in the Beta field off the coast of Long Beach, California.Tim Rue / Corbis via Getty Images On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the fossil fuel industry's challenge to a 2018 court-ordered moratorium on offshore fracking in federal Pacific Ocean waters off the coast of California, a rare victory for environmental groups and coastal conservationists who say producing oil and gas from under the seafloor poses a serious threat to ocean ecosystems and the climate.
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