“North Dakota is asking the court to hand over the keys to the castle for taxpayer-owned oil and gas resources, not to mention taxpayer-owned public lands,” said Melissa Hornbein, senior attorney with the Western Environmental Law Center. “The state’s assertion of control over federally held resources—explicitly directed to be managed according to the principles of multiple use—is not based on any federal legal authority.”

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