Gov calls for revision of federal law Wyoming Gov. Dave Freudenthal is once again calling on federal lawmakers to rework a rule that lets agencies bypass painstaking environmental studies in order to fast-track oil and gas drilling. Freudenthal doesn't want the rule eliminated; he simply wants it revised, said Ryan Lance, the governor's deputy chief of staff. "We're going to be active in making sure this is remedied," Lance said. "We've offered specific language to Congress and the energy companies to change this several times over the last few years." The Government Accountability Office, which is the investigative arm of Congress, sent auditors to Utah last week -- and tentatively plans to have personnel in Wyoming by the end of this month -- to examine the way the BLM has implemented a legal, but relatively new tool to exempt some oil and gas drilling from environmental review. At issue is a version of what's called a "categorical exclusion," which, in this case, allows land managers to skip in-depth environmental reviews for individual oil and gas drilling projects in areas where three wells have already been drilled, and where a previous environmental analysis was conducted within the past five years....