Oil and Gas Leasing

— The Bureau of Land Management has opened a process to review multi-state conservation plans.

— WyoFile: Feds resume oil and gas leasing review, and will add climate impact analysis.

— Legal and political realities seem to have tempered the administration’s ambitions for ending fossil fuel extraction on federal lands.

— The president also set a goal of conserving 30 percent of the country’s land and water by 2030 and took steps to boost the clean-energy economy.

— Conservation groups protest plan to build 5,000 new wells in critical wildlife habitat.

— The real effects of fire-sale mineral leasing on our shared resources.

— When energy companies go bust, taxpayers are often on the hook to clean up abandoned wells that pose environmental hazards.