Latest Bureau of Land Management News

Biden administration moves to make conservation an equal to industry on US lands

Apr. 19, 2024 14:32 PM EDT

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration on Thursday finalized a new rule for public land management that's meant to put conservation on more equal footing with oil drilling, grazing and other extractive industries on vast government-owned properties. Officials pushed past...

10 years after armed standoff with federal agents, Bundy cattle are still grazing disputed rangeland

Apr. 13, 2024 12:43 PM EDT

BUNKERVILLE, Nev. (AP) — The words “Revolution is Tradition” stenciled in fresh blue and red paint mark a cement wall in a dry river wash beneath a remote southern Nevada freeway overpass, where armed protesters and federal agents stared each other down through rifle sights 10 years ago. ...

Interior Department rule aims to crack down on methane leaks from oil, gas drilling on public lands

Mar. 27, 2024 18:25 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration issued a final rule Wednesday aimed at curbing methane leaks from oil and gas drilling on federal and tribal lands, its latest action to crack down on emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas that contributes significantly to global warming. ...

Labor board: Home Depot violated labor law by firing an employee who drew 'BLM' on work apron

Feb. 21, 2024 18:16 PM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — The nation's labor board ruled on Wednesday that Home Depot violated federal labor law when it fired an employee for refusing to remove the hand-drawn “BLM” acronym for “Black Lives Matter” from a work apron. The National Labor Relations Act said it protects...

Feds look to drastically cut recreational target shooting within Arizona's Sonoran Desert monument

Jan. 21, 2024 12:46 PM EST

PHOENIX (AP) — The federal Bureau of Land Management is looking to drastically reduce an area open to recreational target shooting within Arizona’s Sonoran Desert National Monument. The agency announced Friday that a proposed resource management plan amendment would allow target...