Mealey's ( October 6, 2022, 7:32 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) and other federal agencies filed an answer in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia denying that they violated federal law when they approved applications for permits to drill (APDs) for fracking in New Mexico’s Permian Basin and Wyoming’s Powder River Basin....