Sep 22, 2025 | Look West Newsletter
Last Friday was the final day of the U.S. Forest Service’s 21-day comment period on the agency’s plan to repeal the Roadless Rule, which currently protects over 58.8 million acres of national forest land from road-building, logging, and other industrial... 
May 22, 2024 | Look West Newsletter
The eight largest U.S.- and Europe-based oil and gas producers are failing to meet standards that would help keep global temperatures from rising to detrimental levels, according to a new report from research group Oil Change International. The report, Big Oil Reality... 
Dec 12, 2023 | Look West Newsletter
Despite claims from Wyoming politicians that the Biden administration is “at war with American energy,” a new analysis by the Center for Western Priorities finds that in 2023, oil and gas companies didn’t bother to bid on nearly half of the acres of public land the... 
Sep 27, 2023 | Look West Newsletter
A new statistical analysis of more than 260,000 public comments finds universal support for the Bureau of Land Management’s proposed rule updating the regulations that govern oil and gas leasing on American public lands. The proposed rule would bring BLM’s regulations... 
Aug 10, 2023 | Look West Newsletter
Private equity investors appear to have found a new target: oil and gas companies operating on public land in the Western U.S. According to a new report co-authored by Public Citizen and the Private Equity Stakeholder Project, private-equity-backed companies hold...