New oil and gas leasing on public lands in California will be suspended, advancing efforts by public interest groups to protect community health and the climate from fossil fuels

Agreement preserves moratorium on leasing public lands to oil industry

Citing potential threats to water supplies and endangered wildlife, a U.S. district judge overturned a federal plan to open more than 1 million acres of public land and mineral estate in central California to drilling and fracking.

Bureau of Land Management failed to analyze risks of fracking and other dangerous oil and gas extraction techniques when preparing a resource management plan

Environmental organizations are seeking to block a federal plan to open up more than a million acres of public land and mineral rights in central California to drilling and fracking. Earthjustice filed the lawsuit against the Bureau of Land Management in the Central District of California, Western Division, on behalf of the Center for Biological…

This case challenges a management plan and accompanying environmental impact statement adopted by the Bakersfield Field Office of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management on December 22, 2014.

Bureau of Land Management failed to consider threats of fracking to air, water and wildlife