Mealey's (November 23, 2021, 1:33 PM EST) -- NEW ORLEANS— The Biden administration on Nov. 16 filed a brief in the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals arguing that the nationwide preliminary injunction issued by a Louisiana federal judge blocking President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s executive order halting new federal hydraulic fracturing leases should be reversed and vacated because there is no basis for the injunction and there is no reason to apply it to all eligible onshore and offshore lands....