Transcript: Everything you wanted to know about gas prices but were afraid to ask

A new report from the Center for Western Priorities, Wilderness Workshop, and the Colorado Wildlands Project finds that rampant speculative leasing of public lands by oil and gas companies has put pristine landscapes at risk across the West.

As the Interior Department moves to undermine the West’s landmark sage-grouse conservation plans, a new analysis from the Center for Western Priorities finds that oil and gas companies with ties to Acting Interior Secretary David Bernhardt own a fifth of all federal oil and gas leases in sage-grouse habitat throughout five key Western states.

An obscure Interior Department advisory board comprised of oil, gas, and coal industry players is poised to offer policy recommendations on how the agency should oversee energy development on public lands. If you think that sounds like the fox guarding the hen house, you’re exactly right. At this week’s meeting of the Royalty Policy Committee […]

The Center for Western Priorities today denounced the lack of disclosure of the companies trying to drill in Colorado’s North Fork Valley.

As of FY 2011, the BLM had leased millions of acres of the public estate for drilling, but industry is producing oil and gas on only a small percentage of them. In Colorado, the BLM has leased nearly 4.4 million acres, but only 1.5 million of those acres are producing oil or gas. In Montana, […]