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- Comments to BLM on September 2020 Lease Sale in Utah – …proposed oil and gas lease sale in Utah would offer over 100,000 acres located in areas valuable for recreation, wildlife, environmental conservation, cultural use, and tourism. We submitted comments detailing how the Bureau of Land Management’s environmental assessment neglects its duties to manage public lands for multiple use and consider…
- Comments to BLM on Royal Gorge Oil and Gas Lease Sale – The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released its environmental assessment of a September 2020 lease sale in the Royal Gorge Field Office region of Colorado. We submitted comments asking BLM to monetize the real-world climate impacts of projected emissions using the social cost of greenhouse gases.
- Gulf Restoration Network v. Bernhardt, No. 18-1674, 2020 WL 1930470 (D.D.C. Apr. 21, 2020), appeal filed (D.C. Cir. 20-5179) – …2020: A federal district court upheld two offshore oil lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico. The court found that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management had met its obligations under the National Environmental Policy Act.
- 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…
- Look Before You Lease – While the Trump administration’s goal of “energy dominance” has increased the public lands available for oil and gas development, no effort has been made to modernize the leasing system, even in the face of climate change. Our report explains how option value—which accounts for the informational value gained by delaying…
- 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…