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- Comments to BLM on the Coastal Plain Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement – …and held the first lease sale in January 2021. Later in 2021, the agency placed a moratorium on all activities relating to BLM’s Coastal Plain leasing program, announced that the analysis conducted in 2019 was legally deficient, and began to prepare a supplemental environmental impact statement. We filed comments on…
- Feds Say Gulf Oil Lease Is Forced By Inflation Reduction Act – …the Inflation Reduction Act moots the issue of whether Lease Sale 257 violated NEPA.
- Amicus Brief in D.C. Circuit Defending BOEM’s Authority to Robustly Consider Climate Impacts in Offshore Leasing – …challenged an offshore oil-and-gas lease sale held by the Bureau Ocean Energy Management on the basis that BOEM inadequately assessed the impacts on climate change from the combustion of the fossil fuels that the lease sale would facilitate. In its appeal to the D.C. Circuit, the American Petroleum Institute countered…
- The Climate Costs of BOEM’s Offshore Leasing Plan Are Severe. Why Does BOEM Ignore Them? – …Proposed Program does not declare a “preferred” schedule of lease sales, leaving open the possibility of scheduling anywhere from zero to eleven sales. BOEM’s decision, expected in the coming months, rests on how it balances the nation’s energy needs — including its assessment of the environmental impacts of leasing.
- Comments to Bureau of Ocean Energy Management on Proposed Five-Year Offshore Leasing Plan – …from zero to eleven lease sales over the coming half-decade. As part of that proposal, BOEM conducts a cost-benefit analysis in which it finds net benefits from offshore leasing, but recognizes uncertainty and specifically calls for comment on this analysis. In response to this call for comments, Policy Integrity submitted…
- The Real Costs of Offshore Oil and Gas Leasing – …holding up to 11 lease sales over the next five years, and conducts an economic analysis concluding that the benefits of those lease sales would exceed the costs. This report provides comprehensive feedback on BOEM’s economic analysis. As the report details, BOEM vastly understates the environmental and social costs of…
- Has Biden Ditched the Environment? – …curtailing fossil-fuel leasing now and preserving the option to lease or not lease in the future,” he adds.
- Appeals Court Revives Biden Climate Damage Cost Estimate – …of actions such as the pending oil and gas lease sale. “These numbers are important,” Sarinsky said. “They provide a useful tool for the government to develop cost effective policies that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions.”
- U.S. Carbon ‘Cost’ Ruling May Hit Oil Lease Sales – …federal oil and gas lease sales planned in the coming months. Interior officials are "sort of in a 'damned if we do, damned if we don't' scenario," New York-based think tank Institute for Policy Integrity senior attorney Max Sarinsky said. This injunction "prohibits them from using the best available metric…
- Court Rejection of Climate Metric Baffles Regulatory Experts – In lease sales in Wyoming and Utah, BLM applied the social cost of greenhouse gases while proposing to move ahead with substantial new oil and gas leasing. “I don't see how there's any injury from that,” said Max Sarinsky, a senior attorney at the Institute for Public Integrity at New…