California judge lifts ban on logging, drilling in Colorado
Bloomberg News
Published December 4, 2008 at 12:05 a.m.
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A federal judge in California lifted a 2-year-old ban on logging and oil and gas development on millions of acres of forest land in 40 states, including Colorado, Utah and Wyoming.
U.S. District Judge Elizabeth Laporte in San Francisco revised a nationwide ban she imposed in 2006, saying it now applies to 10 Western states. She refused the Bush administration's request to lift the ban entirely to resolve a conflict between her 2006 decision and an August ruling by a judge in Wyoming who blocked nationwide enforcement of a Clinton-era rule preventing development in so-called roadless forest lands.
"The court's partial stay leaves intact the protection of the roadless rule throughout the Western states," Laporte said in a ruling Tuesday.
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