( September 6, 2024, 8:07 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Multiple final briefs have been filed in the District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals separately by environmental groups, the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) and hydraulic fracturing proponents in the dispute over federal fracking permits in New Mexico’s Permian Basin and Wyoming’s Powder River Basin. In the briefs the parties continue their respective arguments for or against the issuance of permits, with the DOI insisting that the groups have not established injury or causation....