Conservationists won their legal challenge to BLM oil and gas lease sales in Wyoming, but industry is celebrating the court’s ruling that the agency isn’t capable of determining the impacts of emissions.
Hundreds of parcels of land in a massive 2022 Wyoming oil and gas lease sale are in limbo after a U.S. district court ruled last month that the Bureau of Land Management did not fully consider impacts from oil and gas operations on water quality and declining species populations and failed to demonstrate how it factored future greenhouse gas emissions into its decision to hold an auction.