Judge To Obama: You Can't Regulate Fracking On Federal Lands - Daily Caller

A federal district court judge has sided with the petroleum industry and granted an injunction against enforcing the Obama administration regulations for hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, on federal lands.

“At this point, the Court does not believe Congress has granted or delegated to the [Bureau of Land Management] authority to regulate fracking,” Judge Scott Skavdahl, an Obama appointee, wrote in his preliminary injunction against the Department of the Interior.

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