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- Enviros Call On DC Circ. To Nix Offshore Lease Program – “Interior fails to give the same treatment to environmental and social costs and gives no explanation for the different treatment,” CSE’s counsel Michael Livermore said during Thursday’s oral arguments.
- Policy Integrity’s Livermore says BOEM moving too quickly on new leases – …approval of new offshore lease sales? During today’s OnPoint, Michael Livermore, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law and a senior adviser at the Institute for Policy Integrity, discusses his recent argument before the U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Columbia on a case pertaining to…
- DC Circ. Tosses Bid To Nix Offshore Oil, Gas Lease Program – But despite the result, CES’ counsel Michael Livermore told Law360 that the court left the door open to future challenges on one of its major arguments: that Interior should use a quantitative rather than qualitative approach to assess the informational or option value of delaying leasing.
- Coal Royalties Leave $1 Billion on the Table – …“There’s no reason these companies should be able to lease coal for the same price they were able to decades ago.”
- Arctic Offshore Leasing Put on Ice – The U.S. Department of the Interior announced last week that it is canceling future lease sales in federal Arctic waters off Alaska’s northern coast, a decision that places future Arctic offshore drilling on ice.
- Trump’s Executive Order Is a Gift to Coal Executives. It Won’t Do Anything for Coal Miners. – Now there’s a window of opportunity for coal companies. Lifting the moratorium, says Jayni Foley Hein of the Institute for Policy Integrity, “will allow new lease sales to go forward using the same outdated minimum bids, rental rates, and stagnant royalty rates that have been used for decades.”
- Obama-Era Oil Leases Broke the Law by Not Assessing Climate Impact, Judge Rules – …environmental consequences of the lease, an agency has to look not just at the consequences of the impacts immediately surrounding the lease but also the consequences down the road of burning the fuel once it’s extracted,” said Richard L. Revesz, an expert on environmental law at New York University. “That’s…
- The Trump Administration’s Bad Deal for Public Lands – …Instead, the Trump administration is rushing ahead with these lease sales, locking in more harmful greenhouse gas emissions while failing to earn a decent return for American taxpayers.
- U.S. Auctions Off Oil and Gas Drilling Leases in Gulf of Mexico After Climate Talks – …or delaying a scheduled lease sale, or from scaling it back. “The Louisiana opinion doesn’t force the administration to move forward with any particular lease sale – the Department of Interior still has discretion over that,” said Max Sarinsky, a senior attorney at the New York University School of Law.…
- Gulf Oil, Gas Leases Sold Days After COP26 – …force the administration to move forward with any particular lease sale,” Max Sarinsky of the New York University School of Law told The Guardian, though he added that if the sale were postponed, “I’m almost certain they would be sued by oil and gas interests.”