![The California division of the Bureau of Land Management said it manages nearly 600 producing oil and gas leases covering more than 200,000 acres and 7,900 usable wells, like the one pictured above. On Aug. 16, the Department of the Interior said it would resume the bureau’s leasing program while it appealed a suit filed by more than a dozen state attorney generals over the government’s recent pause. (Bureau of Land Management)](https://ladatanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/feat_22042dfc-9a2f-41d8-b0b2-5ba053996f04-326x245.jpg)
Legal Free-For-All Rages Over Oil, Gas And Coal Leases On Federal Lands
Eventual outcomes of those disputes will have big impact on local budgets, indigenous communities and the environment.
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