States: Agency’s Postponement Of Fracking Royalty Rule Is ‘Facially Illegal’

(June 6, 2017, 12:08 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — The attorneys general for California and New Mexico on June 2 filed a brief in California federal court arguing that the Office of Natural Resources Revenue’s (ONRR) decision to postpone enacting its revised valuation rule for the payment of royalties from hydraulic fracturing “is facially illegal” (People of the State of California, ex rel. Xavier Becerra, et al. v. United States Department of the Interior, et al., No. 17-2376, N.D. Calif.)....

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