Panel Vacates Fracking Ruling, Says Agency Properly Suspended Mineral Lease

Mealey's (June 17, 2020, 2:28 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A panel of the District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on June 16 vacated a district court judgment and held that that court erred when it ruled that the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) had improperly suspended and then canceled a hydraulic fracturing mineral lease in Montana (Solenex LLC v. David Bernhardt, et al., No. 18-5345, and Solenex LLC v. David Bernhardt, et al., No. 18-5343 [consolidated], D.C. Cir.)....