BAKERSFIELD, Calif. \u2013\u00a0The Bureau of Land Management is seeking public comment on proposed management updates for oil and gas leasing and development on public lands in portions of Fresno, Kern, Kings, Madera, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Tulare, and Ventura counties managed by the BLM Bakersfield Field Office.<\/p>\n
The effort aligns with\u00a0Secretary’s Order 3418<\/a>, which supports President Trump\u2019s call for \u201cUnleashing American Energy<\/a>,\u201d aimed at increasing energy exploration and production on federal lands in an affordable and reliable manner. The order emphasizes development of oil, gas, coal, strategic minerals, and alternative energy sources on public lands.<\/p>\n The BLM will host a virtual public meeting via\u00a0Zoom<\/a> from 5-6:30 p.m. PT on Feb. 3, 2026, to discuss the draft plan. Please register to participate. Additional information is available at the\u00a0BLM National NEPA Register,<\/a> where comments may be submitted through the \u2018Participate Now\u2019 option. The comment period will close March 13, 2026.<\/p>\n The BLM Bakersfield Field Office administers approximately 400,000 acres of public land and an additional 1.2 million acres of federal mineral estate in central California. California\u2019s federal production totals average about 8-10% of California\u2019s total oil and natural gas production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. \u2013\u00a0The Bureau of Land Management is seeking public comment on proposed management updates for oil and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-291288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}