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A three judge panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled a district judge erred in enjoining the federal government from enforcing the Navigable Waters Protection Rule (NWPR) within Colorado.

Research indicates, President Joe Biden’s executive order placing a halt on new natural gas and oil leases on public lands is likely to compromise the funding of public schools in eight Western states.

A group of Republican governors sent a letter to President Joe Biden February 22, asking him to rescind an executive order he issued halting new leases for oil and gas development on federal land.

President-elect Joe Biden issued a campaign promise to halt new oil and gas leases on federal lands. Such a ban, if actually imposed by a Biden administration, would cost eight Western states an estimated $8.1 billion in tax revenue and $34.1 billion in investment in just the first five years of its existence.

By Christopher Casey Regardless of which candidate secures the presidency in the days to come, the administration will have to cope with unprecedented federal debt....

The Federal court for the Eastern District of California, based in Sacramento, has temporarily blocked a California law that would ban the sale of alligator products in the state.

A comprehensive environmental review by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers of the proposed Pebble mine in southwest Alaska, found the mine would not significantly impact regional salmon numbers or reproduction.

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg vacated a permit issued in 2017 which allowed the Dakota Access Pipeline to be completed and begin operating.

A three judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has reversed a U.S. District Court’s June 2018 ruling dismissing climate change lawsuits brought by the cities of Oakland and San Francisco against five oil companies, potentially putting the case back in California state court.

Months after a federal judge first issued an injunction on President Joe Biden’s oil and gas permitting ban on federal lands, the Biden finally offered its offer its first oil and gas lease sale in mid-November.