Tay Wiles If there is one swath of land that holds the most promise for Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s vision for energy dominance, it might be southeast New Mexico. The 6-million acre region includes part of the Permian Basin, which stretches into west Texas and is...
By Darryl Fears February 1 The Trump administration is aggressively sweeping aside regulations protecting public land to clear a path for expanded oil and gas drilling. A memorandum from the Interior Department, made public Thursday, directs its field offices “to...
The Interior Department implemented a new policy Thursday aimed at streamlining the oil and natural gas drilling process on federal land by cutting back on the opportunities for drilling opponents to slow down the process. A memo signed Wednesday and released...
Karl Puckett, Great Falls Tribune Published 10:15 p.m. MT Sept. 13, 2014 | Updated 11:13 a.m. MT Sept. 14, 2014 Flat crop country begins to give way to the contours of sharply rising and falling coulees that spread from the Missouri and Musselshell rivers like spider...