Bad math by the government leads to ruling against oil and gas development

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Because of a misplaced decimal by a federal government agency, a firm’s 5,000-well oil and gas drilling project in Wyoming has been put on hold by a federal judge.

The Bureau of Land Management’s mistake led to a miscalculation of the project’s groundwater impacts, leading to U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan 17-page decision filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. She halted work on the Converse County Oil and Gas Project.

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