The Latest Breaking News from Bureau of Land Management

The Biden administration is trying to dramatically change how and where oil and gas drilling occurs on federal land, which is getting mixed reviews in longtime drilling boom-towns.

After massive winter downpours, conservationists in California are eager to gather desert seeds as an insurance policy against a hotter and drier future

For more than six decades, Alaska’s North Slope has been a focus of intense controversy over oil development and wilderness protection, with no end in sight. Willow field, a 600-million-barrel, US$8 billion oil project recently approved by the Biden administration – to the outrage of environmental and climate activists –…

The administration approved the controversial ConocoPhillips venture while also limiting future drilling elsewhere

Opponents say the Thacker Pass lithium project was rushed in the name of the green transition

A federal appeals court has cleared the way for the highly-contested construction in Nevada of what will be the largest lithium mine planned in the U.S. The court is allowing construction while it considers whether the government illegally approved the mine in a rush to produce raw materials for electric…

A federal judge has sided with the Biden administration and a mining company in a fight with environmentalists and tribal leaders trying to block a huge lithium mine in Nevada near the Oregon line

Conservationists are seeking an emergency court order to block construction of a lithium mine near the Nevada-Oregon line

Federal rules for mining haven't been updated since Ulysses S. Grant was president

A federal judge in Nevada has ordered the government to revisit part of its environmental review of a proposed lithium mine

A federal appeals court says the U.S. government failed to consider the cumulative effects of greenhouse gas emissions that would result from the approval of nearly 200 drilling permits issued in an area surrounding Chaco Culture National Historical Park