The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released its environmental impact statement for the Moneta Divide Natural Gas and Oil Development Project, which would significantly expand well drilling in Wyoming. The project would be responsible for billions of tons of greenhouse gas emissions over its lifetime. We submitted comments explaining why BLM should use the social cost of greenhouse gases to monetize and weigh the plan’s climate impacts.
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