Tag: Bureau of Land Management

$The Obama-era rule targets the practice of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, which has made the U.S. the world's leading producer of energy. The Trump administration will repeal the rule on Friday. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)$ Energy and Environment

Trump administration to repeal Obama fracking rule Friday

Josh Siegel · December 28, 2017 8:22 pm

The Trump Interior Department is moving forward with its plan to repeal the Obama-era regulation on oil and natural gas drilling on federal lands. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

Energy and Environment

Appeals court will not reconsider decision to overturn Obama-era fracking rule

John Siciliano · December 27, 2017 6:13 pm

In this June 12, 2014 file photo, oil pumps and natural gas burn off in Watford City, N.D. The Obama administration finalized a rule to cut methane emissions from U.S. oil and gas production by nearly half over the next decade. But the Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management under President Trump this month announced a two-year delay in implementing the Obama administration's rule, and a coalition of environmental and tribal groups are suing the government. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

Energy and Environment

Environmental, tribal groups sue Trump administration for halting Obama methane rule

Josh Siegel · December 19, 2017 7:13 pm

DeRay McKesson, a leading voice for the Black Lives Matter movement, is suing Fox News host Jeanine Pirro for defamation. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

Black Lives Matter activist sues Fox News, Jeanine Pirro for defamation

Diana Stancy Correll · December 14, 2017 4:49 am

The delay comes after energy companies and a major industry group recently announced programs to voluntarily reduce emissions of methane. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)

Energy and Environment

Interior Department to delay Obama methane rule two years

Josh Siegel · December 7, 2017 6:56 pm

Horse populations have soared, partially because wild horses have no natural predators, say officials from the Bureau of Land Management. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner)

Energy and Environment

Congress fights over whether to allow Interior to kill wild horses

Josh Siegel · December 5, 2017 5:01 am

From left, Sens. Tom Udall, D-N.M., Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., and Al Franken, D-Minn., attend a news conference with Democratic senators and environmental groups on the east lawn of the Capitol to oppose oil and gas drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge on October 17. (CQ Roll Call via AP Images)

Energy and Environment

Will the energy industry even want to drill in ANWR?

Josh Siegel · November 6, 2017 5:01 am

Unbridled Affection

Pia Catton · November 3, 2017 7:10 am

House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah, speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Energy and Environment

Rob Bishop to announce big energy bill pushing oil, gas development

Josh Siegel · October 31, 2017 10:26 pm

A law enforcement officer blocks a road as flames burn in a residential area in Santa Rosa, Calif., Monday, Oct. 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Energy and Environment

Senators introduce compromise proposal to fight wildfires

Josh Siegel · October 19, 2017 10:01 pm

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is looking to focus on energy policy. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Energy and Environment

Ryan Zinke focuses on energy development on public lands as new committee starts

John Siciliano · October 4, 2017 4:28 pm

The Interior Department plans to change 98 sage grouse habitat management plans across 10 Western states. (Jeannie Stafford/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via AP)

Energy and Environment

Trump intends to overhaul Obama-era plans to protect sage grouse

Josh Siegel · September 28, 2017 5:30 pm