Judge Says Agency’s Fracking Lease Sales Did Not Violate Federal Land Policy Law

Mealey's ( March 26, 2024, 2:33 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. —  A federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has ruled that the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) did not violate its duty under the Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA) to avoid “unnecessary and undue degradation” of the environment when it authorized multiple hydraulic fracturing lease sales across several Western states....