September 05, 2024
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management, a California tribe and a group of nonprofits say proposed settlement talks in a dispute over a series of geothermal energy leases will continue despite a recent bid by federal lawmakers to have the land in question designated as a national monument.
March 09, 2023
A federal judge in Sacramento has ordered the Bureau of Land Management to produce evidence supporting the agency's view that a decades-old lease for geothermal energy exploration in Northern California remains viable, rejecting the BLM's efforts to avoid discovery.
January 13, 2021
A California federal judge has denied the Bureau of Land Management's bid to escape a suit seeking to shut down a unit of geothermal leases on land sacred to the Pit River Tribe, saying the claims weren't covered in a previous suit by the tribe.