Fracking Company Appeals To 9th Circuit Ruling That Agency Wrongly Approved Leases

Mealey's (April 21, 2020, 1:57 PM EDT) -- BOISE, Idaho — A hydraulic fracturing company on April 17 appealed to the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals a federal magistrate judge’s ruling that granted partial summary judgment on one claim made by environmental advocacy groups that contend that the secretary of the Interior and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) wrongly approved fracking leases without following federal laws designed to allow for public notice and comment periods.  The appeal is one of four separate appeals of the same ruling lodged by various parties to the litigation (Western Watersheds Project, et al. v. David Bernhardt, et al., No. 20-35342, 9th Cir.)....