August 04, 2021
A New Mexico federal judge has tossed a bid by environmental groups to block fracking near archeological and cultural sites in the Mancos Shale, saying that the Bureau of Land Management didn't predetermine it would approve drilling permits and that its environmental review backed up its decisions.
November 10, 2020
A slew of oil and gas groups, as well as Navajo Nation citizens, have asked a New Mexico federal judge not to grant environmental groups' request to stop companies from fracking near archaeological and cultural sites in northwest New Mexico.
January 22, 2020
Nearly 200 Navajo landowners can't join a group of tribe members backing the Bureau of Land Management in a challenge from environmental groups over oil and gas drilling permits in the Mancos Shale, a New Mexico federal court has ruled.
December 02, 2019
A group of Navajo landowners pressed a New Mexico federal court Friday to allow nearly 200 more tribe members to intervene in a challenge from environmental groups to the Bureau of Land Management's approval of more than 250 oil and gas drilling permits in the Mancos Shale.
September 23, 2019
An oil and gas drilling company urged a New Mexico federal court on Friday to reject environmental groups' bid to block fracking for oil and gas wells in the Mancos Shale, saying that the company's technology prevents environmental harm and that an injunction would cost the company and Navajo landowners millions of dollars.
September 05, 2019
Several environmental groups pressed a New Mexico federal court to block fracking for oil and gas wells in the Mancos Shale, saying that the Bureau of Land Management hasn't changed its environmental analysis for the region despite a Tenth Circuit ruling against the agency.
August 06, 2019
A BP subsidiary and an energy company have asked a New Mexico federal court to let them intervene in a challenge from environmental groups to the Bureau of Land Management's approval of more than 250 oil and gas drilling permits in New Mexico's Mancos Shale.
August 02, 2019
A Navajo-linked environmental group has challenged the Bureau of Land Management's approval of more than 250 oil and gas drilling permits in New Mexico's Mancos Shale, asserting in federal court that the agency failed to consider the cumulative environmental and public health impacts of fracking.