{"id":27528,"date":"2025-11-19T08:10:48","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T15:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westernlaw.org\/?p=27528"},"modified":"2025-11-19T08:14:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T15:14:14","slug":"5000-oil-and-gas-leases-potentially-invalid-letter-warns-blm-reckless-use-of-cra-has-thrown-legal-foundation-of-public-lands-management-into-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westernlaw.org\/es\/5000-oil-and-gas-leases-potentially-invalid-letter-warns-blm-reckless-use-of-cra-has-thrown-legal-foundation-of-public-lands-management-into-question\/","title":{"rendered":"5.000 concesiones de petr\u00f3leo y gas podr\u00edan ser inv\u00e1lidas: Carta advierte que el uso irresponsable de la Ley de Conservaci\u00f3n de Tierras (CRA, por sus siglas en ingl\u00e9s) por parte de la Oficina de Administraci\u00f3n de Tierras (BLM, por sus siglas en ingl\u00e9s) ha puesto en entredicho los fundamentos legales de la gesti\u00f3n de tierras p\u00fablicas."},"content":{"rendered":"

Six organizations sent a letter<\/a> to the acting director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), warning that at least 5,033 oil and gas leases \u2014 covering nearly 4 million acres \u2014 may now be legally invalid. The letter asks the agency to halt all new leasing and permitting until it \u201censure[s] compliance with the law and remed[ies] this grave legal uncertainty.\u201d Ultimately, Congress must fix the legal crisis it created.<\/p>\n

The letter details how Congress’ unprecedented use of the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to overturn\u00a0 BLM resource management plans (RMPs) has called into question the legal efficacy of every<\/i> land management plan finalized since 1996. These plans don’t just guide management decisions; they enable everything that happens on public lands, from oil and gas drilling to recreation, grazing, and wildlife protection. If land use plans may now be invalid, then thousands of oil and gas leases and drilling permits issued under them may also be invalid.<\/p>\n

Congress was warned about CRA consequences<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

When Republican members of Congress voted in October to use the CRA to overturn three RMPs in Alaska, Montana, and North Dakota, they ignored urgent warnings from conservationists, legal scholars, former BLM officials, and even some energy industry voices about the chaos this would unleash.<\/p>\n

The agency’s own Solicitor\u2019s Office<\/a> cautioned that treating RMPs as \u201crules\u201d could call into question the validity of every BLM plan since 1996 \u2014 along with the leases, grazing permits, rights-of-way, and other decisions based on those plans. Thirty leading law professors<\/a> warned that this move could jeopardize \u201cthousands of leases and management decisions across hundreds of millions of acres.\u201d Former BLM leaders<\/a> said overturning land-use plans under the CRA would \u201cundermine the basis for authorizations\u201d and create widespread legal uncertainty for energy developers, ranchers, and recreation permittees, threatening the integrity of the entire planning system.\u00a0 But Congress ignored these warnings \u2014 and is now moving ahead with even more CRA resolutions that will escalate the crisis.<\/b><\/p>\n

Along with the at least 5,033 existing leases, the legal uncertainty extends to future leasing. According to the letter, 69.8% of all BLM lands available for oil and gas leasing are managed under RMPs finalized after 1996 that were never submitted to Congress. BLM is currently evaluating 850 parcels totaling 787,927 acres across 14 upcoming lease sales on lands that may lack a valid RMP.<\/p>\n

This legal chaos affects far more than oil and gas. Land management plans for national forests, national parks, and national wildlife refuges finalized since 1996 may also be invalid, potentially calling into question grazing permits, timber sales, recreation authorizations, and wildfire management projects across hundreds of millions of acres nationwide.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s be crystal clear: The Congressional Review Act is bad public policy. And it\u2019s absolutely terrible public policy when used to overturn comprehensive public land planning decisions that radically reduces predictability for all public land users \u2014 in particular, as we have highlighted to the Bureau of Land Management, the oil and gas industry itself,\u201d said Melissa Hornbein, senior attorney at the Western Environmental Law Center.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

“Congress was warned repeatedly that weaponizing the CRA against land management plans would create exactly this kind of chaos. They charged ahead anyway, putting short-term political gain ahead of stable land management. Now they’ve jeopardized the very oil and gas development they claimed to be protecting. Congress must immediately fix the mess it made.” said Alison Flint, senior legal director for The Wilderness Society<\/b>.<\/p>\n

“By incorrectly treating land use plans as rules under the Congressional Review Act, Congress hasn’t just overturned three plans \u2014 they’ve thrown every plan finalized since 1996, representing 166 million acres, into doubt. That mistake replaces a stable, science-based, community-driven system with needless chaos and uncertainty. It was lazy and irresponsible and is harmful to all land users,” said Jocelyn Torres, chief conservation officer at the Conservation Lands Foundation.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cCongress lit the fuse on a legal time bomb that now calls into question the validity of thousands of oil and gas leases covering millions of acres as well as grazing permits and numerous other authorizations. But equally concerning, use of the CRA unravels decades of community-led land-use planning and throws into disarray the legal foundation for how our public lands are managed,\u201d said Laird Lucas, executive director at Advocates for the West.<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cCongress\u2019s use of the CRA to disapprove several Bureau of Land Management land use plans that were put in place following years of stakeholder and Tribal Nation input has sown confusion throughout the American West. This is not what Congress intended when it passed the CRA,\u201d said Steve Bloch, legal director for the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance.<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cAs one of the principal architects of this newest line of attack on public lands, Sen. Daines opened Pandora\u2019s Box. Using the Congressional Review Act to wipe out years of local work on Resource Management Plans is unprecedented, and it puts rural economies at risk, including the oil and gas industry. Inserting Congress into these processes threatens to unravel the foundations of public resource management and dismantle the systems that communities, businesses, and Montanans rely on. Congress is heading down a reckless path, yet another example of the pattern of attacks we\u2019re seeing out of Washington D.C. on one of the most foundational aspects of Montana\u2019s way of life: our public lands and resources,\u201d said Aubrey Bertram, Staff Attorney & Federal Policy Director at Wild Montana.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Contacts:<\/b>
\nMelissa Hornbein, Western Environmental Law Center, 406-708-3058<\/p>\n

Max Greenberg, The Wilderness Society, 240-678-5578<\/p>\n

Will Shoemaker, Advocates for the West, 970-275-2227<\/p>\n

Shevawn Bell, Conservation Lands Foundation, 208-890-2778<\/p>\n

Steve Bloch, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, 801-428-3981<\/p>\n

Aubrey Bertram, Wild Montana, 303-956-5263<\/p>\n

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