Fifty-one Trump-era oil and gas leases in southern Utah were affirmed by the Interior Department Thursday after it finished a new environmental review under a settlement agreement with environmental groups.
One of the leases, all of which are in Emery County, Utah, is inside a wilderness area where drilling is usually prohibited by law.
The Trump administration leased the parcels of Bureau of Land Management land in 2018, sparking a 2020 lawsuit by the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance. The BLM settled the lawsuit, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance v. Bernhardt, in US District Court for the District of Columbia, ...
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