{"id":16918,"date":"2025-03-23T17:05:53","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T17:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=16918"},"modified":"2025-03-23T17:05:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-23T17:05:54","slug":"north-dakota-sued-the-interior-department-at-least-five-times-under-gov-doug-burgum-now-hes-set-to-run-the-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=16918","title":{"rendered":"North Dakota Sued the Interior Department at Least Five Times Under Gov. Doug Burgum. Now He\u2019s Set to Run the Agency."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;While some of the cases mirror his party\u2019s long-running push to support the oil and gas industry over other considerations, including conservation, the litigation over public lands represents a more extreme view: that federal regulation of much of the country\u2019s land and water needs to be severely curtailed.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;While the state\u2019s attorney general handled the lawsuits, Burgum emphatically supported them,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/northdakotamonitor.com\/2024\/04\/10\/governor-urges-lawmakers-to-budget-for-court-battles-over-federal-regulations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">urging state lawmakers last spring<\/a>&nbsp;to fully fund the legal fights. He also cited the litigation during his confirmation hearing to assure Republican lawmakers that he would increase oil and gas leasing on public lands.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Carroll, of the Wilderness Society, said that North Dakota siding with Utah was cause for concern about Burgum leading the Interior Department. \u201cSupporting that lawsuit suggests that he\u2019d be willing to support large-scale sell-off or giveaways of federal public lands, which, for most of us who live in the West and are concerned about the future of those public lands, is a very extreme position,\u201d he said.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/doug-burgum-north-dakota-interior-department-trump\">https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/doug-burgum-north-dakota-interior-department-trump<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;While some of the cases mirror his party\u2019s long-running push to support the oil and gas industry over other considerations, including conservation, the litigation over public lands represents a more extreme view: that federal regulation of much of the country\u2019s land and water needs to be severely curtailed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While the state\u2019s attorney general handled the lawsuits, Burgum emphatically supported them, urging state lawmakers last spring to fully fund the legal fights. He also cited the litigation during his confirmation hearing to assure Republican lawmakers that he would increase oil and gas leasing on public lands.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Carroll, of the Wilderness Society, said that North Dakota siding with Utah was cause for concern about Burgum leading the Interior Department. \u201cSupporting that lawsuit suggests that he\u2019d be willing to support large-scale sell-off or giveaways of federal public lands, which, for most of us who live in the West and are concerned about the future of those public lands, is a very extreme position,\u201d he said.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/doug-burgum-north-dakota-interior-department-trump<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2181,1038],"class_list":["post-16918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-interior-department","tag-north-dakota"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16919,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16918\/revisions\/16919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}