Attorneys General: Agency’s Delay Of Waste Rule ‘Devoid Of Legal Justification’

(November 8, 2017, 2:12 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The attorneys general for the states of California and New Mexico on Nov. 6 sent a joint letter to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) opposing the agency’s proposal to delay and suspend certain requirements of the final rule governing the prevention of waste from oil and gas operations on federal and Indian lands because the rule “provides a commonsense and much-needed update to BLM’s rules governing the waste of natural gas and royalty payments from mineral leases administered by” the agency....

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