Fracking Advocates: Lease Cancellation ‘Inconsistent’ With Agency’s Regulations

(August 7, 2024, 10:25 AM EDT) -- ANCHORAGE, Alaska — An industrial development group that advocates for hydraulic fracturing has filed a reply brief in Alaska federal court contending that the U.S. Department of the Interior’s (DOI) cancellation of federal fracking leases was “inconsistent with fundamental and well-established principals of both common-law and statutory due process, and was inconsistent” with the DOI’s own regulations....