Judge: Offshore Fracking Lease Case Dating Back To Biden Presidency Is Not Moot

( June 3, 2025, 2:45 PM EDT) -- LAKE CHARLES, La. — A federal judge has denied a motion for judgment on the pleadings filed by intervenor environmental groups in a dispute over federal offshore hydraulic fracturing leases dating back to the Biden administration, ruling that the matter is not moot and the court “can grant effective declaratory relief addressing the legality of these actions.”...

Attached Documents

Memorandum ruling
Groups’ reply brief
Federal defendants’ brief opposing intervenor defendants’ brief on mootness
Louisiana’s brief opposing intervenor defendants’ brief on mootness
Intervenors’ brief in support of motion for judgment on the pleadings
Friends of the Earth, et al. brief in support of motion to intervene
Complaint

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