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Tight timetable on federal oil and gas lease sales is scrambling protests
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Oil and gas leasing on federal lands is revving up in Colorado and across the West, with shorter time frames for comment and bigger lease sales as environmental groups rush to meet Monday’s deadline to get in their protests on the upcoming September lease sales. “We’ve gone from a 30-day protest period to a 10-day period…