A judge has ruled that federal regulators lack the authority to set rules for hydraulic fracturing, dealing another setback to the Obama administration's efforts to tighten how fossil fuels are mined.
A federal judge on Wednesday agreed with two energy organizations, four states including Wyoming and an Indian tribe that the U.S. Bureau of Land Management overstepped its authority to implement new fracking rules on federal land.
"An administrative agency derives its existence and authority to regulate from Congressional authorization or delegation," U...
U.S. District Court Judge Scott Skavdahl on Tuesday presided over eight hours of hearings about whether to block controversial new U.S. Bureau of Land Management regulations about hydraulic fracturing.
And a half-dozen hours before the rules were to go into effect Wednesday, Skavdahl eyed a proposed preliminary injunction by their opponents in a way that would have made the British punk band The C
A state program that provides cisterns to homeowners with polluted groundwater in the Pavillion area could run out of money before everybody who wants a cistern gets one.