Results for keyword: energy industry
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Forest Service greases the skids for oil and gas
The Forest Service wants to create a new type of "categorical exclusion" to make it easier for oil and gas drilling projects to be approved without environmental study or public input
by Emma Brown, Oct 31, 2005 -
Boulder gets the gas-drilling blues
Energy companies are planning to drill on open space in Boulder County, Colo.
by Michelle Burkhart, Oct 03, 2005 -
Feds oppose state's effort to empowerlandowners
Wyoming’s new "split-estate" law, designed to give private landowners more control over energy development on their property, hits a big obstacle – the Bush administration
by Kerry Brophy, Aug 22, 2005 -
Congress and Indians spar over lost money
Sen. John McCain proposes a way to settle the long-running scandal over missing Indian trust-account funds, but Blackfoot banker Elouise Cobell remains wary
by Daniel Kraker, Aug 22, 2005 -
Follow-up
Judge Dee Benson reconsiders the Norton-Leavitt 2003 wilderness settlement; New Mexico’s Otero Mesa back on the oil and gas auction block; former NOAA administrator James Lecky accused of doctoring science in controversial biological opinion
by Matt Jenkins, Aug 22, 2005 -
Bedrock environmental law takes a beating
Congressman Richard Pombo’s task force tears into the National Environmental Policy Act
by Laura Paskus, Aug 22, 2005 -
Industry walks a fuzzy line between preservation and extortion
EnCana Oil and Gas offers to pay for offsite mitigation in Wyoming in exchange for intensive drilling rights in the Jonah Field
by Whitney Royster, Aug 08, 2005 -
Industry embeds its own in the BLM
Energy and mining companies are paying the salaries of workers at Bureau of Land Management offices around the West
by Tony Barboza, Aug 08, 2005 -
Congress touts 'green energy,' but bill is black and blue
The House of Representatives passes an energy bill with even more industrial pork than the Bush administration requested.
by Laura Paskus, May 16, 2005 -
Oil and gas opponents will have to move faster
The Bureau of Land Management is shortening the amount of time that citizens and environmental groups in Wyoming and Utah will have to protest oil and gas leases
by Matt Jenkins, May 02, 2005






