August 12, 2022
The U.S. Department of the Interior agreed to stop new oil and gas leasing across 2.2 million acres of southwestern Colorado until additional environmental review and resource management plans are completed, in a settlement with environmental groups.
October 27, 2020
Environmental groups on Tuesday said a U.S. Bureau of Land Management plan to expand fossil fuel development in southwestern Colorado is unlawful because it was approved during the likewise unlawful tenure of acting Director William Perry Pendley.
August 19, 2020
Environmental groups said in a new suit Wednesday that the U.S. Bureau of Land Management neglected to carefully consider climate change impacts when it approved a long-term plan that would allow oil and gas development on roughly 870,000 acres in southwestern Colorado.