Mealey's (February 4, 2021, 3:21 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The American Petroleum Institute (API), a hydraulic fracturing trade group, on Jan. 28 filed a notice of appeal in the District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals and joined other industry parties and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in seeking to overturn a district court ruling that ordered the BLM to remand its approval of fracking leases in Wyoming to correct deficiencies in the environmental assessment that concluded that the lease sale complied with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)....