Mealey's (October 5, 2022, 2:29 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Environmental groups have filed an amended complaint in District of Columbia federal court challenging the U.S. Department of the Interior’s (DOI) approval of the sale of 173 oil and gas lease parcels for fracking on 144,000 acres of public lands across eight western states, contending that the decision to hold the lease sales was at odds with “the voluminous body of scientific evidence” contained within the DOI’s own environmental assessments (EAs) specific to those leases....