Several Republican-led states are accusing the Bureau of Land Management of contorting a rule meant to reduce natural gas waste from oil production to unlawfully impose limits on greenhouse emissions.

A Wyoming Senate panel is demanding that Congress give the state all federal lands and mineral rights in the Equality State, except Yellowstone National Park.

Tucked away on state Route 18 is a trail where hikers meander through pinyon-juniper forest, braving rocky and sandy conditions to get to a single point — one of the ...