Law firms across the U.S. are hailing a Wyoming federal judge’s ruling that struck down the Obama administration’s fracturing rules as a huge win for the oil and gas industry.
The U.S. District judge ruled the U.S. Department of the Interior had no legal authority to involve itself in creating fracking control rules on federal and Indian land.
Industry lawyers praised the ruling as yet another rebuke of the Obama administration’s overreach on energy and environmental issues according to a report by Law.com.