kilometres) of public lands in Colorado and Utah for oil and gas drilling, under a federal court ruling issued Wednesday. kilometres) of energy leases in Wyoming. But unlike earlier, Contreras did not immediately block new drilling in Colorado and Utah. “The analyses of climate change impacts in ... the Colorado and Utah leasing decisions are similar.” Approval of the Wyoming leases was ultimately renewed this month, after BLM officials published a hastily assembled document in April that said the Wyoming leases by themselves had “minor potential” to affect the rate of climate change. Environmentalists had criticized the study of the Wyoming leases as a cursory review that largely ignored the threat posed by climate change.

Source: thestar May 29, 2019 22:52 UTC