Fracking Wells State Map

Local operators are celebrating a ruling this week by a federal judge who halted implementation of U.S. Bureau of Land Management rules governing hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, by the oil and gas industry on public and tribal lands.

The Colorado Supreme Court on Monday announced that it will hear Longmont's fracking ban case.

The Texas General Land Office has dropped its lawsuit against Denton's obliterated ban on hydraulic fracturing and moratorium on new gas drilling, officially resolving all litigation over the local vote,

Jon Husted said that the courts already had decided this issue, and that only the state has the authority to regulate oil and gas activity in Ohio.

Since the state imposed new rules two weeks ago on the energy industry aimed at reducing suspected man-made earthquakes, people are noticing a difference. It might be a coincidence, however.