On June 23, a Wyoming federal judge issued a ruling that voided the Obama administration’s hydraulic fracturing rules—a significant victory for the oil and gas industry as federal, state and local governments fight over the authority to impose regulations.
U.S. District Judge Scott Skavdahl said in Wyoming v. U.S. Department of the Interior that the federal Bureau of Land Management has no power to set the rules for hydraulic fracturing.
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