Grassroots Community Organizing in Western States Check in on the latest Worc News

Rural Westerners Condemn BLM’s Rollback of 2024 Bonding Rates

Residents argue that BLM’s revision to the Biden-era oil and gas rule will once again incentivize producers to leave toxic messes. Members of the Western Organization of Resource Councils condemned a move by the Interior Department to revise the Bureau of Land Management’s 2024 onshore oil and gas rule. The revision, released on June 22, 2026, significantly reduces the statewide bonding requirements, which now revert to what they were before…