Biden administration stops half-million-acre Wyo oil and gas sale
Leasing pause leads BLM to postpone first-quarter auction of hundreds of parcels across the state.
oil and gas
Anger at leasing pause shrouds bigger questions of sustainability
Opinion
by 15 Comments Instead of reacting with surprise and anger to leasing moratorium, we should be focusing on long-term solutions, writes our guest columnist.
State unveils new grouse rules as feds again ease protections
Wyoming adopts habitat mitigation rules as Trump’s BLM, thwarted by courts, issues second stab at greater sage grouse plan rewrite.
Clean water in Wyoming is too precious to pollute
Opinion
by 8 Comments Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission decision to permit Aethon Energy to pump millions of gallons of pollutants into an underground aquifer near Shoshoni is wrongheaded, guest columnist Maria Katherman writes.
Scientists: Reworked BLM plan still fails to protect sage grouse
Agency’s preferred alternatives don’t account for four-year population slide, wildfire risks or landscape-scale coordination as the BLM aligns federal conservation plans with states’, experts charge. Others back the federal plan.
