( April 26, 2024, 2:12 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Environmental advocacy groups filed their opening appeal brief in the District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on April 25, arguing that they have standing to challenge the U.S. Department of the Interior’s (DOI) decision to grant permits to conduct hydraulic fracturing operations in New Mexico’s Permian Basin and Wyoming’s Powder River Basin, which the groups say was done in violation of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and other federal laws....