(September 22, 2017, 2:28 PM EDT) -- DENVER — A split panel of the 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Sept. 21 vacated a district court’s ruling that the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) exceeded its authority in promulgating new regulations regarding hydraulic fracturing on federal lands and remanded the case with instructions for it to be dismissed without prejudice, on grounds that changing circumstances presented by new directives issued by the Trump Administration made the appeals “prudentially unripe” (State of Wyoming, et al. v. Ryan Zinke, et al., No. 16-8068, 10th Cir.; 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 18275)....