Conservation groups filed a formal administrative protest late Friday against a Bureau of Land Management plan to auction off more than 13,800 acres (21 square miles) of publicly owned fossil fuels near Carlsbad in southeast New Mexico.

Source:: http://www.wateronline.com/doc/legal-protest-challenges-fossil-fuels-auction-on-acres-in-new-mexico-0001?atc~c=771+s=773+r=001+l=a