Admitting Prior Error, Judge Says Group’s Fracking Lease Challenge Is In Fact Ripe

( May 21, 2025, 12:41 PM EDT) -- SALT LAKE CITY — A federal judge in Utah has acknowledged “factual errors” in her previous decision regarding an environmental group’s challenge to federal hydraulic fracturing leases and ruled that the claims that she once dismissed are in fact ripe. The judge concluded that because the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) considers the lease approval to be a final agency action, the court should also treat it as such....

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