( November 22, 2024, 1:56 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Attorneys for environmental groups, the U.S. government and hydraulic fracturing operators on Nov. 21 debated before the District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals the issue of whether the groups had standing to challenge federal fracking permits in New Mexico’s Permian Basin and Wyoming’s Powder River Basin, with the groups insisting that they have alleged plausible injury, and the government and the fracking proponents maintaining that Congress has granted federal agencies authority to grant applications for permits to drill (APDs)....