By Erik Larson andAndrew M Harris, Bloomberg News
Three days before Donald Trump’s inauguration as the 45th U.S. president, attorneys for Barack Obama’s outgoing administration will ask an appeals court to revive rules governing oil-and-gas fracking on federal land.
Even if Obama wins, the victory would likely be short-lived.
Trump’s “highest advisers generally agree with our side of the lawsuit,” said Mark S. Barron , a lawyer for trade groups that joined Wyoming and three other states seeking to overturn the restrictions that they contend would unduly restrict energy companies’ use of hydraulic fracturing. “The Bureau of Land Management ...
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