US District Judge Scott Skavdahl in Cheyenne, Wyoming, has ruled that the federal Bureau of Land Management cannot set rules for hydraulic fracturing because Congress has not given it the authority to do so

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Skavdahl, who was nominated by President Obama in 2011, wrote that the court's role is not to decide whether hydraulic fracturing is good or bad for the environment, but to interpret whether Congress has given the Department of Interior legal authority to regulate fracking. He wrote, 'It has not.'