June 28, 2016
Environmental groups led by Earthjustice and the Sierra Club on Monday asked the Tenth Circuit to revive a federal rule regulating fracking on federal and Native American lands.
June 24, 2016
The federal government on Friday appealed to the Tenth Circuit a Wyoming federal judge's decision to strike down a rule regulating hydraulic fracturing on federal and Native American lands, while the rule's challengers urged the appeals court to dismiss the challenge of the rule's stay as moot.
June 22, 2016
The federal government on Wednesday blasted a Wyoming federal judge's recent decision to strike down the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's fracking rule for federal and Native American lands, saying the standards are well within the agency's authority and responsibility to protect public lands.
June 21, 2016
A Wyoming federal judge on Tuesday struck down the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's fracking rule for federal and Native American lands, finding the agency lacked congressional authority to promulgate the regulations and handing a victory to energy industry groups and states opposed to the rule.
June 13, 2016
Climate change and environmental regulation will dominate the energy-related litigation docket through the rest of 2016, from fights over the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's blockbuster emissions rules to battles over climate change's place in environmental reviews of energy infrastructure projects. Here are the energy cases to watch in the second half of 2016.
May 03, 2016
The states of Colorado, Utah and Wyoming have urged a Wyoming federal judge to ignore a new study on drinking water contamination in Wyoming's suit challenging the Bureau of Land Management's rule governing hydraulic fracturing on federal and tribal lands, calling a request for the court to consider the study excessive and unauthorized.
April 04, 2016
The U.S. government on Monday urged a Wyoming federal judge to toss the Ute Indian tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation's bid to permanently block the Bureau of Land Management's rule governing hydraulic fracturing on Ute lands, arguing that the rule is valid.
March 16, 2016
A Wyoming magistrate judge on Tuesday declined to let a petroleum trade association weigh in on a challenge to a Bureau of Land Management rule governing fracking on federal and tribal land, saying the gas and petroleum industry is already well represented by two trade groups contesting the rule.
March 07, 2016
States and energy industry groups challenging the U.S. Department of the Interior's rule governing hydraulic fracturing on public lands have told a Wyoming federal judge that the agency doesn't have the authority to issue the rule and is trampling over state authority in doing so.
March 07, 2016
The Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation urged a Wyoming federal court Friday to permanently block the Bureau of Land Management's rule governing hydraulic fracturing within Ute lands, saying the rule unlawfully treats federal and tribal lands the same and threatens to cripple tribal economic development.