Reuters: The U.S. Interior Department on Wednesday canceled leases held by energy companies for oil and natural gas drilling on 130,000 acres of federal lands in Utah. “I have directed (the department’s) Bureau of Land Management not to accept the bids,” Interior Secretary Ken Salazar told reporters on a conference call. He said the department would return to the companies the $6 million in bids on the contested parcels of land and would reassess the decision to open these lands to …