JUDGE STRIKES DOWN US ENERGY LEASING RULES IN BIRD HABITAT
May 30, 2020
2 minutes
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A U.S. judge has dealt another blow to the Trump administration’s efforts to increase domestic oil and gas output from public lands, saying officials failed to protect habitat for a declining bird species when it issued energy leases on hundreds of square miles.
Judge Brian Morris said the Interior Department did not do
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