(June 6, 2017, 12:51 PM EDT) -- DENVER — The states of Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming on June 5 filed a brief in the 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals arguing that U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lacks the regulatory authority needed to promulgate its hydraulic fracturing rule pertaining to leases on federal land and that the court should hold the case in abeyance until the BLM advises it of the status of its reconsideration of the rule (State of Wyoming, et al. v. Ryan Zinke, et al., No. 16-8068, 10th Cir.)....