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Circuit Court of Appeals have ruled that the Interior Department and the BLM have broad discretion to determine the timing and scope of lease sales, including not holding them at all. The plaintiffs want the court to order the Interior Department and the BLM to hold quarterly lease sales. Bureau of Land Management’s postponement of several oil and gas lease sales. In December Wyoming and two industry trade groups challenged the U.S. The administration has followed the law, but the fossil fuel industry is attempting to rewrite the law in its favor.” “The law is clear that the Department of the Interior and Bureau of Land Management have broad discretion to determine when, where, and whether to hold oil and gas lease sales. “This is nothing more than an effort to hand over management of our public lands to the oil and gas industry,” said Michael Freeman, a senior attorney with Earthjustice’s Rocky Mountain Office.

District Court in Wyoming affirmed the administration’s ability to postpone lease sales, but the state of Wyoming and industry groups are suing in an attempt to rewrite the law to benefit fossil fuel companies. CASPER, Wyo.- Seventeen conservation groups represented by Earthjustice and the Western Environmental Law Center moved to intervene today to defend the Biden administration’s 2021 postponement of several oil and gas lease sales.Ī September ruling in U.S.