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$FILE - This July 27, 2011 file photo shows a farmhouse in the background framed by pipes connecting pumps where the hydraulic fracturing process in the Marcellus Shale layer to release natural gas was underway at a Range Resources site in Claysville, Pa. In Pennsylvania’s fracking boom, new and more unconventional wells leaked far more than older and traditional wells, according to a study of inspections of more than 41,000 wells drilled. And that means that that methane leaks could be a problem for drilling across the nation, said the author of the study, which funded in part by environmental activist groups and criticized by the energy industry. The study was published Monday by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)$

US judge refuses to halt fracking in Nevada

By SCOTT SONNER - Associated Press

$A worker helps monitor water pumping pressure and temperature at a hydraulic fracturing and extraction site outside Rifle, in western Colorado. (Associated Press) ** FILE **$

BLM wants anti-fracking suit dismissed in Nevada

By SCOTT SONNER - Associated Press

Waiting for Godot Court Ruling Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

PENDLEY: Suing the feds gets old

By William Perry Pendley

$Oil field workers may be having more rigs to climb in the future. Energy leaders now, more than ever, are portraying oil and gas production as a key way of generating tax revenue, spurring job creation and saving the nation from going off the looming “fiscal cliff.” States such as Pennsylvania and North Dakota continue to expand fracking, creating tens of thousands of jobs and pumping millions of dollars into local economies. Any federal action to limit fracking would pour cold water on the growth in those states and give fresh ammunition to the vocal environmental opposition in New York, California and elsewhere. (Associated Press)$

Feds to resume leasing for fracking in California

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER - Associated Press

** FILE ** Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas Republican. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Returning federal lands back to the states

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Rancher rides across Nevada in protest of BLM

Associated Press

Nevada ranchers cite Gandhi in protest ride

By SCOTT SONNER - Associated Press

Iron County calls BLM horse roundup a ‘joke’

Associated Press

Environment group sues over Uinta Basin drilling

Associated Press

Feds reviewing plan for 5,000 new Wyoming wells

Associated Press

More dinosaur tracks found at Red Rock Canyon

By HENRY BREAN - Associated Press

Possible charges against Utah ATV protest riders

By BRADY McCOMBS - Associated Press

New manager on duty at Lake Sakakawea in ND

By BRIAN GEHRING - Associated Press

Ryan Bundy, son of the Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, rides an ATV into Recapture Canyon north of Blanding, Utah on Saturday, May 10, 2014, in a protest against what demonstrators call the federal government's overreaching control of public lands. The area has been closed to motorized use since 2007 when an illegal trail was found that cuts through Ancestral Puebloan ruins. The canyon is open to hikers and horseback riders. (AP Photo/The Salt Lake Tribune, Trent Nelson)

Dozens of protesters ride in off-limits canyon

By MARTIN GRIFFITH and BRADY MCCOMBS - Associated Press

BLM approves mine project in northeastern Nevada

Associated Press

In this April 24, 2014 photo, Pueblo III-period cliff dwellings created by the Anasazi or Ancestral Puebloan peoples between 1150 and 1300 A.D. in Recapture Canyon near Blanding in Utah. The Bureau of Land Management closed it to motorized use in 2007. Recapture Canyon is home to dwellings, artifacts and burials left behind by Ancestral Puebloans hundreds of years ago before they mysteriously disappeared. Environmentalists and Native Americans say the ban is needed to preserve the fragile artifacts. (AP Photo/The Salt Lake Tribune, Leah Hogsten) DESERET NEWS OUT; LOCAL TV OUT; MAGS OUT

Dozens of protesters ride in off-limits canyon

By MARTIN GRIFFITH and BRADY MCCOMBS - Associated Press

In this April 24, 2014 photo, Pueblo III-period cliff dwellings created by the Anasazi or Ancestral Puebloan peoples between 1150 and 1300 A.D. in Recapture Canyon near Blanding, in Utah. The Bureau of Land Management closed it to motorized use in 2007. Recapture Canyon is home to dwellings, artifacts and burials left behind by Ancestral Puebloans hundreds of years ago before they mysteriously disappeared. Environmentalists and Native Americans say the ban is needed to preserve the fragile artifacts. (AP Photo/The Salt Lake Tribune, Leah Hogsten) DESERET NEWS OUT; LOCAL TV OUT; MAGS OUT

Gov. Herbert: Uphold laws during ATV protest

By BRADY McCOMBS - Associated Press

Juan Palma, Utah State Director for the Bureau of Land Management speaks with reporters during the Outdoor Recreation Summit Thursday, May 8, 2014, in Salt Lake City. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is warning its workers in Utah to be on alert after two men threatened an agency wrangler on Interstate 15 about 90 miles south of Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Federal land worker threatened on Utah highway

By BRADY McCOMBS - Associated Press

Fergus County land swap meets hunter protests

Associated Press

In this April 12, 2014, file photo, the Bundy family and their supporters fly the American flag as their cattle is released by the Bureau of Land Management back onto public land outside of Bunkerville, Nev. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Review-Journal, Jason Bean, File)

Nevada ranch standoff reveals bigger fight over federally owned land in West

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times