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The rule from the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management will allow public property to be leased for restoration in the same way that oil companies lease land for drilling.
The move is part of an effort to make conservation an “equal” to other uses of public lands such as drilling and livestock grazing. Republican lawmakers contend the changes are
BILLINGS, Mont. — The Biden administration on Thursday finalized a new rule for public land management that’s meant to put conservation on more equal footing with oil drilling, grazing and other extractive industries on vast government-owned properties. Officials pushed past strong opposition from private industry and Republican governors to adopt
BILLINGS, Mont. — The Biden administration Thursday finalized a new rule for public land management that’s meant to put conservation on more equal footing with oil drilling, grazing and other