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- Interior Should Properly Consider Climate Damages in Oil and Gas Leasing – …Interior (Interior) has taken in analyzing recent proposals to lease public lands and waters for fossil fuel development.
- Comments on BOEM’s Environmental Impact Statement for the Proposed Cook Inlet Lease Sale 258 – …for its proposal to lease more than one million acres of submerged land on the Alaska Outer Continental Shelf for oil and gas development. BOEM proposes to take this action despite estimating that it could lead to more than $1.3 billion in climate damages, and despite presenting no estimate of…
- Comments to BLM on 2022 First Quarter Lease Sales – …in their environmental assessments (EAs) for oil and gas lease sales, but recommend that the agency improve its decisionmaking by better incorporating these values into its final determination, considering the informational value of delaying leasing, and conducting more robust environmental justice analyses to inform its decisionmaking.
- 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.”
- 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.…
- Comments to BLM on December 2020 Lease Sale in Colorado – …proposed oil and gas lease sale in Colorado would offer over 45,000 acres in areas valuable for recreation, wildlife, environmental conservation, and tourism. We submitted comments explaining how the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) environmental assessment neglects its duties to manage public lands for multiple uses and consider more limited…
- Comments to BLM on Oil and Gas Leasing in Utah – …impacts and, further, assess the option value of deferring lease sales to improve its land management decisions.
- 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.
- Northern Alaska Environmental Center v. Department of the Interior, 965 F.3d 705 (9th Cir. 2020) - NPR-A – …on the Obama administration's prior environmental review of two lease sales in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, holding that plaintiffs had waived their claims. The court of appeals affirmed, holding that the Trump administration decision was justified and that plaintiffs had waived a claim that the administration was required to supplement…
- BLM Cancels Oil and Gas Lease Sale in Utah’s Moab Region – The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced its decision to exclude 87,000 acres of public lands from an upcoming lease sale, agreeing with arguments raised by policymakers and environmental advocates, including Policy Integrity, that these public lands are too valuable for other uses to be designated for fossil fuel extraction.