WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 -- Friends of the Earth posted the following news release on Oct. 8, 2024: WYOMING - Today, a coalition of conservation groups filed a formal request (https://westernlaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/2024.10.08-BLM-Public-Lands-Rule-Intervention.pdf) to intervene in an industry lawsuit in order to defend the Bureau of Land Management's oil and gas leasing rule (https://foe.org/news/blm-oil-gas-leasing-rule/), finalized in April. The rule contains decades-overdue fiscal refor  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 -- The Corporation for Public Broadcasting issued the following news release on Oct. 8, 2024: The Board of Directors of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), the steward of the federal government's investment in public broadcasting, today unanimously elected Rubydee (Ruby) Calvert of Wyoming as chair and Laura Ross of New York as vice chair. They will serve one-year terms. "I am deeply honored to be elected as the CPB Board Chair," said Calvert, who has served as Vi  more

DENVER, Colorado, Oct. 8 -- Western Energy Alliance issued the following news release on Oct. 7, 2024: CASPER, Wyo. -- Today, the Petroleum Association of Wyoming (PAW) and Western Energy Alliance (Alliance) submitted comments to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) on the proposed listing of the Western Regal Fritillary butterfly as threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The associations urged the USFWS to withdraw the proposed listing because it is based on broad assumptions n  more