By Paul Foy
Salt Lake City, Utah (AP)
Congressional investigators are looking at a federal government agency’s quick approvals for oil and gas drilling in Utah, a development applauded by environmental groups but condemned by industry executives as political posturing.
Two Government Accountability Office investigators are in Utah as part of a probe into the federal Bureau of Land Management’s practice of approving some drilling projects without a full environmental study of the consequences.
Salt Lake City, Utah (AP)
Congressional investigators are looking at a federal government agency’s quick approvals for oil and gas drilling in Utah, a development applauded by environmental groups but condemned by industry executives as political posturing.
Two Government Accountability Office investigators are in Utah as part of a probe into the federal Bureau of Land Management’s practice of approving some drilling projects without a full environmental study of the consequences.