Groups Seek Agencies’ Records Explaining Failure To Hold Fracking Lease Sales

( June 9, 2023, 7:49 AM EDT) -- CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Fracking trade groups have filed a reply brief in Wyoming federal court arguing that it should grant declaratory relief and direct the parties to proceed directly to the remedies phase of consolidated litigation the groups and Wyoming have brought against the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) for its failure to conduct mineral lease sales for hydraulic fracturing in the third and fourth quarters of 2022....