Say what you will about the rest of the Friday budget deal negotiated by House Speaker John Boehner with President Obama and congressional Democrats, but Rep. Rob Bishop, R-UT, sees one very bright silver lining in it - It puts a road block in the way of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's attempt to create new environmental law via regulatory fiat.
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A new analysis of government data by the Western Energy Alliance shows a 79 percent drop in the number of energy development leases offered by the federal government on public lands in the Rocky Mountain region states of Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota, New Mexico and Utah.
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