Now, this is interesting...

BILLINGS, Mont. -- A federal judge has approved a first-of-its-kind settlement requiring the government to suspend 38,000 acres of oil and gas leases in Montana so it can gauge how oil field activities contribute to climate change.

-- The Washington Post's Matthew Brown has the provocative details.

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