Sage-Grouse Opens Door for Interior Oil-Gas Leasing ‘Drop Out’

摘要

Conservation concerns-including protecting the greater sage-grouse-are avenues that the Biden administration are expected to use to sidestep making good on its plan to lease aRhode Island-sized swath of land to oil and gas drillers.“The safer political bet is to propose lots of acres and then allow those acres to drop out as the process moves forward,” said Susan Jane Brown, a staff attorney at the WesternEnvironmental Law Center, a nonprofit legal group.