BLM to Prepare Environmental Assessment for Oil and Gas Leasing in Wyoming

Summary

The Bureau of Land Management is starting an Environmental Assessment to examine the environmental effects of oil and gas lease decisions made since 2000, following court rulings that certain effects of coal bed natural gas development were not analyzed in a 1985 plan.

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