WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 -- The Conservation Lands Foundation (CLF) and Friends Grassroots Network issued a public comment letter to the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) expressing strong opposition to the proposed rescission of the "Management and Protection of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska" Final Rule, known as the 2024 Rule. These groups, representing various communities throughout the western United States, argue that the rescission compromises ecologica  more