{"id":929,"date":"2019-08-01T16:36:25","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T22:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/stateoftherockies\/?p=929"},"modified":"2019-08-02T10:14:58","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T16:14:58","slug":"bill-would-prohibit-oil-and-gas-leases-in-nevadas-ruby-mountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/stateoftherockies\/2019\/08\/01\/bill-would-prohibit-oil-and-gas-leases-in-nevadas-ruby-mountains\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill would prohibit oil and gas leases in Nevada\u2019s Ruby Mountains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"asset-metabar-author asset-metabar-item\">RENO GAZETTE JOURNAL<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"asset-metabar-author asset-metabar-item\">by Benjamin Spillman<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"asset-metabar-time asset-metabar-item nobyline\">Published 5:00 p.m. PT Jan. 31, 2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable-p-1 p-text\">Nevada\u2019s picturesque Ruby Mountains would be entirely off limits to oil and gas leasing under a bill in the U.S. Senate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable-p-2 p-text\">Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/116th-congress\/senate-bill\/258\/text?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22s.258%22%5D%7D\">wrote the bill<\/a> that would prohibit the Secretary of the Interior from issuing oil and gas leases throughout the entire\u00a0450,000-acre Ruby Mountains Ranger District.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">The bill would not affect grazing, mining or any other existing use on the land.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">The bill\u00a0comes as the U.S. Forest Service is reviewing a proposal that would offer leases on about 50,000 acres, including near popular areas for outdoor recreation such as Lamoille Canyon and Harrison Pass.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rgj.com\/story\/life\/outdoors\/2019\/01\/31\/bill-would-prohibit-oil-and-gas-leases-nevadas-ruby-mountains\/2724949002\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RENO GAZETTE JOURNAL by Benjamin Spillman Published 5:00 p.m. PT Jan. 31, 2019 Nevada\u2019s picturesque Ruby Mountains would be entirely off limits to oil and gas leasing under a bill in the U.S. Senate. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto wrote the bill that would prohibit the Secretary of the Interior from issuing oil and gas leases [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1094,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16,26,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-policy","category-public-lands"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/palOvU-eZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/stateoftherockies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/stateoftherockies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/stateoftherockies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/stateoftherockies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/stateoftherockies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=929"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/stateoftherockies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":960,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/stateoftherockies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions\/960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/stateoftherockies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/stateoftherockies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/stateoftherockies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}