Litigation: BLM agrees to conduct climate review of more oil & gas leases

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has inked a settlement with environmental groups that blocks 53 oil and gas leases until the bureau analyzes the climate change impacts of the drilling on more than 45,000 acres in Colorado, resolving a suit that is part of a broader campaign in which groups are targeting drilling leases over this issue. The Jan. 6 settlement in Wilderness Workshop, et al. v. BLM, et al., in the U.S. District Court in Colorado, stems...