Mealey's ( April 5, 2023, 1:24 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The clerk of the District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has entered an order holding in abeyance a lawsuit brought by the American Petroleum Institute (API) against the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) related to what the API calls “an unlawful delay” in the DOI’s program for oil and gas leasing in the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS)....