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- Comments to BLM on Oil and Gas Lease Sale in New Mexico – …2020 oil and gas lease sale in New Mexico. Despite calculating that foreseeable leasing activities would produce over 28 millions tons of downstream CO2-equivalent over a 20-year time horizon, BLM fails to monetize the real-world impacts of those emissions. We submitted comments encouraging BLM to estimate climate impacts using social…
- Comments on Royal Gorge Lease Sale – The Bureau of Land Management failed to consider the climate impacts of oil and gas leasing activity in Colorado that would produce 317 million tons of carbon dioxide-equivalent over a 30-year period in upstream and downstream emissions. We submitted comments urging the agency to apply the social cost of greenhouse…
- Comments on Wyoming Lease Sale – The Bureau of Land Management failed to estimate the climate impacts of leasing activity that would produce over 5 million tons of carbon dioxide-equivalent in downstream emissions on an annual basis. We submitted comments urging the agency to use the social cost of greenhouse gases in its environmental assessment.
- Comments to BLM on New Mexico Oil and Gas Lease Sale – The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released its environmental assessment of a February 2020 lease sale in the Carlsbad Field Office region of New Mexico. We submitted joint comments asking BLM to monetize the real-world climate impacts of projected emissions using the social cost of greenhouse gases.
- Comments to BLM on Utah Oil and Gas Lease Sale – …updated environmental assessment for May 2015 and February 2016 lease sales in Utah, in response to a court remand in WildEarth Guardians v. Zinke. We submitted comments asking BLM to monetize the real-world climate impacts of the lease sales using the social cost of greenhouse gases.
- 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…
- 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 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 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 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…