A state lawmaker said he hopes to create a national model for balancing wildlife protection and energy development when he introduces a bill laying out guidelines for softening the impact of oil and gas drilling.
Supporters say 55 environmental, hunting and fishing groups are behind the proposal.
Democratic Rep. Dan Gibbs of Silverthorne, the sponsor, said wildlife [...]
A state lawmaker said he hopes to create a national model for balancing wildlife protection and energy development when he introduces a bill laying out guidelines for softening the impact of oil and gas drilling.
Supporters say 55 environmental, hunting and fishing groups are behind the proposal.
Democratic Rep. Dan Gibbs of Silverthorne, the sponsor, said wildlife [...]
A new report compiled by the Bureau of Land Management says industry has more impediments to energy development in Wyoming’s Green River Basin than previously estimated, as more land holding natural gas has restrictions on drilling.
Lease restrictions on federal acreage in Green River Basin jumped to 50 percent from 37 percent in the new analysis. [...]
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 [...]
A conservation group critical of Bush Administration energy policies predicts the number of oil and gas wells on public lands in five Western states will double over the next 20 years, according to a report released Wednesday.
The report by the Wilderness Society says under current policies about 118,000 new wells will be drilled on public [...]
Less than half the area on top of and below the Roan Plateau would be opened to natural gas drilling, according to a management plan released Thursday. The remainder would see protections designed to preserve wildlife, views and rare plants.
With the western flank of the Roan Plateau in view, Bureau of Land Management officials unveiled [...]
Western Republicans are starting to buck against oil and gas drilling on federal lands prized for their wildlife and recreational opportunities.
Amid a Western energy boom promoted by the Bush administration, Republican officeholders from Montana, Wyoming, New Mexico and California recently have called for bans on drilling and other development on large blocs of national forest [...]
Western Republicans are starting to buck against oil and gas drilling on federal lands prized for their wildlife and recreational opportunities.
Amid a Western energy boom promoted by the Bush administration, Republican officeholders from Montana, Wyoming, New Mexico and California recently have called for bans on drilling and other development on large blocs of national forest [...]
A provision in a House-passed energy bill would take steps to reduce the time energy companies say they waste waiting for the government to act on permits to drill or mine for oil, gas and coal.
Interior Department officials have said they are struggling to keep up with the growing mountain of applications for permits to [...]
The federal government on Friday released a map of proposed Western energy corridors where new electricity transmission lines and pipelines for natural gas, oil and hydrogen could one day ferry energy from wells or power plants to the region’s cities.
The corridors cross 11 states and cover thousands of miles, stretching from Washington to Wyoming and [...]
