Interior Secretary: Fracking Permits Not Delayed; Group Lacks Standing

(April 6, 2016, 3:02 PM EDT) -- TULSA, Okla. — U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell, embroiled in a dispute over a decision by a division of the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) to grant a hydraulic fracturing company a permit to drill on lands managed by the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), on April 4 filed a brief opposing a motion for preliminary injunction filed by a fracking industry group. Jewell contends that the group has not made the strong showing necessary for the type of injunction it seeks (Osage Producers Association v. Sally Jewell v. David P. Hayes, No. 15-469, N.D. Okla.)....