Three weeks after voluntarily dropping its opposition to reinstating two oil and gas leases in northwestern Montana, the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has asked a federal appeals court to dismiss a case for lack of jurisdiction.
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BLM Ends Challenge to Reinstating Montana Oil, Gas Leases
The Trump administration has voluntarily dropped its appeal of a federal district court’s decision to reinstate two oil and gas leases in the Badger-Two Medicine region of the Lewis and Clark National Forest in northwestern Montana.
April 4, 2019
Montana Leaseholder to Keep Fighting Interior Cancellations
The lead attorney for the Mountain States Legal Foundation (MSLF) told the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Monday that Solenex LLC plans to file an amendment to its 2013 legal challenge of the U.S. Interior Department’s inaction and eventual cancellations of 18 oil and gas leases on federal lands in Montana.
March 30, 2016