(July 9, 2024, 2:34 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Intervenors on July 8 filed a joint brief in the District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals arguing that environmental groups that challenge federal hydraulic fracturing permits issued by the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) pertaining to New Mexico’s Permian Basin and Wyoming’s Powder River Basin lack standing to bring their case because Article III of the U.S. Constitution “does not allow pleading gimmicks designed to circumvent the fundamental requirements of a concrete, particularized injury-in-fact traceable to each challenged agency action and redressable by the court.”...