Mealey's (May 7, 2021, 1:36 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The clerk of the District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on April 28 ordered the dismissal of an appeal brought by the American Petroleum Institute (API), a hydraulic fracturing trade group, which had sought to overturn a lower court’s ruling that ordered the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to remand its approval of fracking leases to correct deficiencies in the environmental assessment that concluded that the lease sale complied with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)....