Fracking Trade Group Seeks Expedited Appeal Of Ruling Vacating Federal Leases

Mealey's (February 15, 2022, 8:22 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The American Petroleum Institute (API), which is an intervenor-appellant, on Feb. 11 asked the District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to expedite consideration of its appeal of a lower court’s ruling that vacated and remanded the record of decision reached by federal agencies to support a lease sale for hydraulic fracturing in the Gulf of Mexico....