Federal Agency Puts Plan to Lease Mineral Rights in Ohio Forest on Hold
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has temporarily delayed its plans to auction off the mineral rights to over 4,500 acres of property in the Blue Rock State Forest in Muskingum County, Ohio. The...
View ArticleWyoming Requests Exemption from BLM Hydraulic Fracking Final Rules
On August 19th, Senators Michael B. Enzi and John Barraso, M.D., as well as U.S. Representative Cynthia M. Lummis, wrote to the Secretary of the Interior, The Honorable Sally Jewell, requesting that...
View ArticlePublic Comment Period for Proposed Federal Fracking Regulations Draws to a Close
The public comment period for new federal regulations regarding fracking on public lands—the first substantive update to the rules in three decades—ended on Friday with over 1 million submissions from...
View ArticleConcerns about BLM’s Failure to Protect Trade Secrets Headline Rulemaking...
When the Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”) issued its Supplemental Notice of Proposed Rulemaking related to hydraulic fracturing on federal lands on May 16, 2013, it believed that it had struck a...
View ArticleEnvironmental Groups Set Stage for Litigation Challenging BLM’s Proposed...
Eighteen environmental organizations – lead by the Sierra Club – are claiming that the Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”) will violate the National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”) if it finalizes its...
View ArticleGAO Recommends That BLM Do a Better Job of Permitting Oil and Gas Development
The Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) conducted a review of certain aspects of the Bureau of Land Management’s (“BLM”) management of federal oil and gas resources. Following this review, the...
View ArticleGAO: BLM Needs To Improve Oil and Gas Well Inspections
This blog entry is a follow up to the previous post discussing the Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) report presented to Congress on Bureau of Land Management’s (“BLM”) management of oil and gas...
View ArticleWhite House Threatens Veto of House Bill Giving States Primacy Over Federal...
UPDATE: On November 20, 2013, the House passed Protecting States’ Rights to Promote American Energy Security Act, H.R. 2728, by a vote of 235 to 187. On November 20, the U.S. House of Representatives...
View ArticleRural Nevada Anti-Fracking Group Seeks to Enjoin Oil and Gas Lease Sale
Reese River Basin Citizens Against Fracking filed a complaint in federal court on June 27, seeking to enjoin the United States Bureau of Land Management (BLM) from holding an oil and gas lease sale....
View ArticleBLM Agrees to Complete Hydraulic Fracturing EIS for Leases in California
A recent agreement between environmentalists and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) may open the floodgates to challenges of the sufficiency of Environmental Assessments (EA) or Environmental Impact...
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Wyoming Federal District Court Stays BLM’s Hydraulic Fracturing Rule
On June 23, a coalition of industry, states, and tribal interests convinced a federal judge to stay the effective date of the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) hydraulic fracturing rule. The stay...
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D.C. District Court Judge Chastises the Department of the Interior, Ordering...
On July 27, 2015, D.C. District Court Judge Richard J. Leon entered a strongly worded order in Solenex LLC v. Jewell, chastising the defendants, including the Department of the Interior and numerous...
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Federal Judge Grants Preliminary Injunction Blocking Enforcement of New BLM...
On September 30, 2015, the U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming granted a motion for a preliminary injunction preventing enforcement of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) recently...
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