Five Years After Oil and Gas Debacle in Utah, the Bureau of Land Management Is at a Turning Point

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–December 19, 2013.  Five years ago this week, a controversial decision by the Bush administration to lease lands near national parks in Utah for oil and gas drilling sparked a firestorm of public opposition and prompted the incoming Obama administration to undertake an aggressive agenda to clean up and reform the Bureau of Land Management’s, or BLM’s, oil and gas leasing program.