{"id":27626,"date":"2016-11-21T09:55:45","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T15:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=27626"},"modified":"2016-11-21T09:55:45","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T15:55:45","slug":"pawnee-nation-sues-u-s-claiming-oil-gas-well-leases-on-tribal-land-were-improperly-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2016\/11\/21\/pawnee-nation-sues-u-s-claiming-oil-gas-well-leases-on-tribal-land-were-improperly-approved\/","title":{"rendered":"Pawnee Nation Sues U.S. Claiming Oil, Gas Well Leases on Tribal Land Were Improperly Approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pawnee Nation on Nov. 18 filed a lawsuit against two federal agencies. The suit mentions the 5.8-magnitude Labor Day weekend quake asks\u00a0&#8220;a judge to void recently approved drilling permits on tribal land and halt the issuance of new ones,&#8221; the World reports.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-key=\"41b6ab12fdc342058c5792c2195ac409\" data-card-type=\"article\">\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tulsaworld.com\/homepagelatest\/pawnee-nation-sues-agencies-claiming-oil-gas-well-leases-on\/article_a4f08613-8f80-541e-b724-3a394960b681.html\">Pawnee Nation sues U.S. claiming oil, gas well leases on tribal land were improperly approved<\/a><\/h4><p>The lawsuit, filed Friday in Tulsa federal court, claims numerous drilling permits and leases on tribal-owned lands held in trust have been improperly approved by the Interior Department, Bureau of Indian Affairs and U.S. Bureau of Land Management.<!--more--><\/p><\/blockquote><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pawnee Nation on Nov. 18 filed a lawsuit against two federal agencies. The suit mentions the 5.8-magnitude Labor Day weekend quake asks\u00a0&#8220;a judge to void recently approved drilling permits on tribal land and halt the issuance of new ones,&#8221; the World reports. Pawnee Nation sues U.S. claiming oil, gas well leases on tribal land [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[490],"tags":[500,238],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27626"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27627,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27626\/revisions\/27627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}