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- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 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 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…
- Letter to BOEM regarding options value – Currently, the federal government treats lease sales as a now-or-never decision. That’s an approach that leads to too many leases sold too quickly, at too low a price. Instead, BOEM should be waiting to sell these leases until the time is right—when they can get the highest possible price.
- 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 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…