About half the oil and more than a quarter of the natural gas beneath 99 million acres of federal land are off-limits to drilling, the Bush administration says in a report that had been sought by industry to highlight environmental and other hurdles to development.
But environmentalists said the new study gives an impression that [...]

Federal land managers will issue a long-awaited report today detailing how much of the country’s onshore oil and gas are available for drilling — data that could shape the debate over land-use restrictions on energy companies seeking access to prized reserves.
The report comes three years after a study commissioned by a 2000 energy bill found [...]