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Land Use,
Environmental & Energy

Aug. 3, 2022

Deal puts 1 million acres off limits to new oil and gas leases

Environmental groups sued the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to protect public lands in the Central Valley and Central Coast.

More than 1 million acres of public lands in California’s Central Valley and Central Coast are off limits to new oil and gas leasing under an agreement between community and conservation groups and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.

“Without waiving any defenses or making any admissions of fact or law, federal defendants agree to pay the environmental plaintiffs $10,000 to settle the environmental plaintiffs’ claims for attorneys’ fees an...

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