Panel Says Groups Fail To Link Federal Fracking Permits To Alleged Harm

( July 31, 2025, 8:32 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel has affirmed a lower court’s dismissal of a case brought by environmental groups against the U.S. government in a dispute over federal fracking permits in New Mexico’s Permian Basin and Wyoming’s Powder River Basin, ruling that the groups failed to sufficiently link the harm they alleged to the “discrete agency actions” they sought to reverse....