Trump Administration:  Fracking Lease Cases Fail Based On Jurisdiction, Mootness

(August 12, 2019, 9:55 AM EDT) -- SALT LAKE CITY — The Trump administration on Aug. 8 moved in Utah federal court to dismiss two consolidated cases challenging federal hydraulic fracturing leases, contending that the district court lacks jurisdiction and that one of the groups’ cases is “moot” (Friends of Cedar Mesa v. U.S. Department of the Interior, et al., No. 19-13, and Southern Utah Wilderness Association v. David Bernhardt, No. 19-266, D. Utah)....

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