US News: An Obama-appointed federal judge Tuesday rebuked one of the administration's first and most visible efforts to implement new environmental regulations for hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the oil and gas drilling technique that helped unleash the nation's energy boom. Judge Scott Skavdahl, of the U.S. District Court of Wyoming, found an Interior Department rule released in March 2015 exceeded the administration's executive authority, siding with Republican critics who saw the regulation as overreach...