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- Hein Testifies at House Hearing on Offshore Leasing – …offshore oil and gas lease sales, among other measures. Hein’s testimony covered four main topics, suggesting that the Department of the Interior should: continue to increase transparency and public participation in the offshore leasing process; improve the regulations that underlie the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s (BOEM’s) five-year planning process;…
- Comments on Interior’s Offshore Oil and Gas Leasing 2019-2024 Draft Proposed Program – The Department of the Interior’s offshore leasing program must analyze and account for the potential for environmental damage, the potential for the discovery of oil and gas, and the potential for adverse impact on the coastal zone. In addition, offshore oil and gas leases must provide fair market value for…
- Comments to BOEM on Offshore Wind Program – The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is responsible for leasing offshore areas for energy development, including areas for wind energy. The agency has so far awarded 13 commercial offshore wind leases, totaling about 17 GW of capacity. In response to its request for feedback on the future of its…
- Comments to BLM on Potential Oil and Gas Leasing in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge – …preparing an Environmental Impact Statement (“EIS”) for this potential lease sale, BLM must consider the many factors that weigh strongly against any leasing or development in the Refuge.
- Comments to Interior on San Juan Mine Lease Extension DEIS (New Mexico) – …(DEIS) for the mine’s lease extension, we criticize Interior’s failure to fully account for the climate effects related to the project by monetizing the damage these emissions will cause. This refusal leaves the public and decisionmakers in the dark about the climate effects of the project, and is arbitrary given…
- Comments to the Interior Department’s Royalty Policy Committee – We recently submitted comments to the Department of the Interior’s Royalty Policy Committee (“RPC”) in advance of the Committee’s third public meeting of the year. As we have discussed in past papers and public comments, existing royalty rates fail to account for the full costs of fossil fuel production, including…
- Comments to BLM on Wright Area Coal Lease Extensions in Wyoming – …assessment (EA) of coal lease extensions in the Wright Area of Wyoming. BLM’s new analysis reaffirms its 2010 environmental impact statement (EIS) on the same lease extensions despite a court order instructing BLM to correct false assumptions of coal leasing economics.. We submitted comments describing how the agency fails to…
- Comments to BLM on Lease Sales on Oklahoma and New Mexico – …about environmental assessments for three planned oil and gas lease sales in Oklahoma and New Mexico. BLM estimates and quantifies some direct, upstream, and downstream greenhouse gas emissions from the leasing plans, but fails to include a monetized estimate or meaningful assessment of the real-world climate damages those emissions will…
- Comments to BLM on Evans McCurtain Oklahoma Coal Lease – …the Evans McCurtain coal lease in Oklahoma, which includes 3.28 million tons of recoverable coal. BLM quantifies around 9.6 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions from direct, upstream, and downstream sources over about eight years. The agency, however, does not provide a monetized estimate of the climate damages those…
- Comments on Caballo West Federal Coal Lease – …West Tract federal coal lease. The mining plan would extend the life of the mine by approximately nine years, from 2042-2051, and increase the amount of coal mined from an average of 10.1 million tons per year to approximately 13.5 tons per year. Despite quantifying over 23 million tons of…