Burning Man event organizers are fighting with the US government over a 10-year permit, after being presented with new rules that they say “would spell the end of the event as we know it.” BLM issued the draft environmental impact statement to “analyze the potential impacts” of conducting Burning Man, an arts and community event, from 2019 to 2028 in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert. Burning Man event organizers took issue with proposed requirements that came in a more-than-150-page report and fired back in a post on their website, writing, “The proposed level of government surveillance of and involvement in our everyday operations is unprecedented and unwarranted, and is unsupported by the analysis.” The organizers said security operations, how many cars are allowed into the event, how people are tracked while there and how lighting is used would all be affected by the proposed rules.