(March 23, 2017, 1:51 PM EDT) -- CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Attorneys for the state of Texas on March 21 filed a brief in Wyoming federal court arguing that Texas should be permitted to intervene as a petitioner in consolidated litigation pertaining to implementation of a new federal rule on venting and flaring oil and gas produced from hydraulic fracturing, contending that the rule “impacts Texas’s interests in regulating oil and gas, and air quality, within its borders” (State of Wyoming, et al. v. U.S. Department of the Interior, et al., No. 16-285, Western Energy Alliance, et al. v. Sally Jewell, et al., No. 16-280, D. Wyo.)....