Green group: Reduce lands open to drilling

Published June 28, 2016 4:41pm ET



The Bureau of Land Management keeps federal lands open for energy production for too long and doesn’t do enough to ensure conservation, according to an environmental group’s report released Tuesday.

The Wilderness Society released “No Exit: Fixing the BLM’s Indiscriminate Energy Leasing” Tuesday and accused the federal agency of not abiding by the multiple use mandate, which requires that different lands should be managed for different uses.

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