Section 50102 of the OBBBA makes changes affecting what Section 18 of the OCS Lands Act calls the Five-Year Oil and Gas Leasing Program. Although the program is accompanied by thousands of pages of analysis, it is a one-page...more
8/5/2025
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Statutory Interpretation
In the first salvo of a larger environmental-industry showdown impacting Western shale development, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Wednesday (Nov. 12, 2014) that the Gunnison Sage Grouse would be granted...more