(Dow Jones) -- California's attorney general sues to stop the Trump Administration's rollback of proposed rules for hydraulic fracturing and other oil- and gas-drilling practices on government lands. Attorney General Xavier Becerra claims an arm of Trump's Interior Department failed to give a reasoned basis in its decision to rescind rules initially pushed by the Obama administration, violating the Administrative Procedure Act. The repeal also fails to ensure environmentally responsible development, violating environmental statutes, Becerra claims. The rules had already been blocked by a federal judge in Wyoming before they were to take effect in 2015, and the Trump administration said this year they duplicate the efforts of state regulators and private industry.
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