The Obama administration's 2015 rule governing hydraulic fracturing on federal and tribal lands was temporarily reinstated today when a federal appeals court dismissed a bloc of states' lawsuit challenging the regulations. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit dismissed the court fight because the Trump administration has proposed rescinding the regulations. The court said that made the fight at the appellate level "unripe" for further action (Wyoming v. Zinke, 10th Cir., No. 16-8068, 9/21/17).
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