( August 8, 2024, 1:53 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — 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 filed a reply brief on Aug. 7 in the District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals insisting that they have plausibly alleged standing because they have alleged sufficient facts that their members’ “aesthetic, recreational, spiritual, and professional interests in listed species, public lands, and a healthy environment are harmed” by the issuance of fracking permits....