federal leases

The state of Wyoming and extractive energy industry leaders argued in Wyoming’s district court on Friday, May 14, that the Biden administration’s pausing of new oil and gas leases is illegal.

The Wyoming legislature’s Joint Minerals, Business and Economic Development committee met with industry experts for two days this week in Casper. A number of topics were discussed, largely including oil and gas drilling.

A coal company and an oil and gas company are stuck in legal limbo over who has superior rights on overlapping federal leases in the Powder River Basin.…

Three environmental organizations joined together to file an administrative appeal Thursday to protest against an oil and gas lease sale proposed by the…

The Wyoming Supreme Court says a mineral rights case involving overlapping federal leases in the Powder River Basin cannot be resolved without…

More than half of the public lands in the continental U.S. that have been leased to oil and gas companies are not actually being drilled, according to a…