A federal district judge in Wyoming temporarily delayed the US Bureau of Land Management’s implementation of its recently issued hydraulic fracturing regulations. Judge Scott W. Skavdahl issued a stay on June 23 to give the US Department of the Interior agency until July 22 to submit a full administrative record in legal challenges by four states and two independent oil and gas producers’ associations. The regulations, which were scheduled to take effect on June 24, effectively have been delayed until early August. BLM is consulting with the US Department of Justice about Skavdahl’s decision, a Washington spokesman told OGJ. “While the matter is being resolved, BLM will follow the court’s order and will continue to process applications for permits to drill and inspect well sites under its preexisting regulations,” he said. DOI issued its final rule for fracing regulations on onshore public and Indian tribal lands earlier this year […]