Stop, baby, stop
Barack Obama already has taken a direct interest in Utah. His staff is trying to figure out a way to reverse a Bush Administration push to hand out leases on backcountry near some of the state's iconic national parks, including Arches and Canyonlands.John Podesta, co-chairman of Obama's transition team, says the president-elect is exploring ways overturn the sale of Bureau of Land Management parcels in Utah. Podesta decries the lame-duck administration's effort to begin:
. . . oil and gas drilling in some of the most sensitive, fragile lands in Utah that they're going to try to do right as they are walking out the door. That's a mistake.
But it's unclear whether a reversal is possible this late in the process — the leases will be sold a month before Obama is sworn in.
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