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- BOEMRE Responds to Policy Integrity’s Petition – The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation, and Enforcement (BOEMRE) recently responded to our petition to reconsider its leasing policies. They commit to further review of our recommendations and mention the possibility of incorporating our findings in the next 5-year leasing program.
- 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 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…
- 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…
- 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 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 Interior on San Juan Mine Lease Extension DEIS (New Mexico) – …(DEIS) for the mine’s lease extension, we criticize Interior’s failure to fully account for the climate effects related to the project by monetizing the damage these emissions will cause. This refusal leaves the public and decisionmakers in the dark about the climate effects of the project, and is arbitrary given…
- Comments to BLM on Potential Oil and Gas Leasing in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge – …preparing an Environmental Impact Statement (“EIS”) for this potential lease sale, BLM must consider the many factors that weigh strongly against any leasing or development in the Refuge.
- 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.
- 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…