Mealey's (October 7, 2020, 12:15 PM EDT) -- CHARLESTON, S.C. — A federal judge in South Carolina on Oct. 6 ruled that a lawsuit brought by conservation groups opposing the federal government's plan to conduct seismic testing along the Continental Shelf in the Atlantic Ocean to explore the possibility of offshore hydraulic fracturing is "moot" because of an executive order issued by President Donald J. Trump that withdrew certain regions of the Continental Shelf from oil leasing (South Carolina Coastal Conservation League, et al. v. Wilbur Ross, No. 18-3326, D. S.C.)....