Federal Agency:  Amended Fracking Lease Case Fails Due To ‘Threshold Defects’

Mealey's (January 12, 2022, 11:23 AM EST) -- LAKE CHARLES, La. — The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) on Dec. 27 filed a brief in Louisiana federal court arguing that it should dismiss the amended complaint in a case in which hydraulic fracturing trade groups argue that the DOI violated federal law by not holding regular fracking lease sales, on grounds that the lawsuit “suffers at least three threshold defects.”...

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