Oil Company Intervenors Seek Dismissal Of Federal Fracking Permit Approval Case

Mealey's (November 3, 2022, 7:32 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Oil and gas companies that are intervenor defendants in a hydraulic fracturing lawsuit brought by environmental groups against the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) have moved in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbiaarguing that it should dismiss the case because the plaintiffs’ challenges to the DOI’s decisions approving fracking permits are barred by limitations on judicial review of administrative action....