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The United States Bureau of Land Management has issued notices to surface landholders on the requirement of their names and addresses in expressions of interest for future lease sales. The move will enable all parties to look at parcels and provide input. Comments from officials are also supplied.

The Independent Petroleum Association of America has urged the United States government to review its Outer Continental Shelf leasing policy in view of Russia's plan to aid Cuba produce oil off its coast. It said the country must make American energy production its goal. Comments from officials are also presented.

There can be cases when homeowners' associations object to the installation of wind turbines and solar panels. When this happens, courts will look at several factors when deciding to uphold restrictions on property use including whether the item encroaches on the rights of others, is likely to adversely affect property values, and also the state of enforcement.

The United States political climate is seen as unsupportive to the oil and gas industries. US president Barack Obama has been using the industries as a source of funding for economic and social reforms. New limits on industry access to federal land have also adversely affected the business.

United States president Barack Obama has signed the National Landscape Conservation System bill into law. The bill has won bipartisan support in Congress. Comments from lawmakers are also presented.

The United States Congress' plan to establish the National Landscape Conservation System (NLCS) is seen to hinder oil and gas exploration and development activities. The NLCS covers national monuments, conservation areas and national scenic and historic trails. Political pressure to add federal acreage to the NLCS is also seen.

CHICAGO -- Only 44 percent of South Los Angeles' nearly 500,000 residents are aware of a new one-year moratorium on the opening of more freestanding drive-thru restaurants in the 32-square-mile [...]

A JOHN DEERE GATOR CX UTILITY VEHICLE and a Warn PullzAll pulling tool are among more than 150 items being offered June 2-11 through special eBay charity auctions hosted by [...]

Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Services has sold a development site consisting of a lot with a vacant mixed-use building and unused development rights, or air rights, from an [...]

PNC Bank, a member of The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc., was recently honored for green building by the New Jersey District Council of the Urban Land Institute (ULI-NNJ). PNC [...]

Gregory Powers has joined Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP as an attorney within the firm's environmental, land use and government affairs practice group. He joins Procopio from SunCal Cos. [...]

The trends of organic farming in the urban and rural areas of the United States are described.

On Dec. 20, New York State's obscure, but recently high-profile, Public Authorities Control Board (PACB)--controlled by then-Governor George Pataki, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Majority Leader Joseph L. Bruno--gave [...]

Private landowners in the USA are setting aside land for conservation purposes at a record rate, according to a report from the Associated Press. While some 2 million acres of […]

The House in its second attempt, to pass a new bill on September 29, 2006 that would streamline access to federal courts for property owners challenging land-use regulations by state and local governments. The bill enables challengers to take their lawsuits directly to federal court rather than going through the state court system.

Measure 37 is once again the law of the land in Oregon. First passed by 61 percent of the state's voters in 2004, the property rights initiative allows landowners to [...]

Through the Federal Lands to Park program, the city of Portland will receive .66 acres of land from the National Park Service with the General Services Administration. The city plans [...]

In "Reinventing Conservation Easements: A Critical" Examination and Ideas for Reform," author Jeff Pidot asks the questions, "Are the increasing numbers of unsupervised land trusts and conservation easements throughout the […]

Weehawken, NJ Mayor Richard Turner and municipal officials joined developers recently to initiate demolition of a long-abandoned warehouse that will pave the way for a new collection of residences along [...]

The New York City commercial real estate market has taken off, according to the most recent market report by GVA Williams. Nearly 3 million square feet of office space were [...]

White Plains has rejected a call for an updated land-use guideline by a coalition of civic groups that have criticized the city's mega redevelopment projects as too dense. 'We don't [...]

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) deployed two new web-based data tools within its GeoCommunicator website: 'Land and Mineral Use Records' and 'Federal Land Stewardship.' GeoCommunicator (www.geocommunicator.gov) is a website [...]

Anyone involved in land-related projects in China should be aware that the right under PRC law to use any plot of land in the PRC can be legally revoked at [...]

Developers of Fall Creek Place on Nov. 5 gained another piece of hardware to sit atop their collective mantel. The Urban Land Institute awarded one of 10 2004 Awards of [...]

The new county law limiting commercial flight activity at Westchester County Airport will have no bearing on a series of other land-use questions for the facility that county officials will [...]

Building on a tradition established by William Barclay Parsons of assisting the development of communities through the design and development of infrastructure, Parsons Brinckerhoff has established a specialty service center, [...]