Reuters: A U.S. district court has granted a temporary restraining order blocking the U.S. Interior Department from finalizing the sales of controversial oil and gas energy exploration leases in Utah following a lawsuit by environmental groups. The groups, including the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Sierra Club, filed a lawsuit last month with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, contesting the department’s December lease sale of 100,000 acres of Utah land, …