BY BRIAN MAFFLY
At the 11th hour, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management decided to postpone an auction of Utah oil and gas leases that activists were planning to protest Tuesday because of climate-altering emissions that would be released if these parcels were drilled.
Those activists celebrated the BLM's move as a cancellation of the auction, but officials still plan to sell rights to drill 39 parcels covering 37,580 acres of public land and will use this postponement to find a more suitable venue, not conduct further review of the parcels...