It can include oral testimony of witnesses, including experts ontechnicalmatters, documents, public records, objects, photographs and depositions (testimony under oath taken before trial).
"Regardless of this firm's expertise on purely technicalmatters unrelated to policy formation, Ecology and Environment's participation in a trade association and lobbying effort in support of authorizing high-volume hydraulic fracturing in New York fundamentally disqualifies the firm and its work" for the DEC environmental impact study, Russ Haven of the New York Public Interest Research Group said in a statement released Wednesday.