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- 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…
- Obama-Era Oil Leases Broke the Law by Not Assessing Climate Impact, Judge Rules – …environmental consequences of the lease, an agency has to look not just at the consequences of the impacts immediately surrounding the lease but also the consequences down the road of burning the fuel once it’s extracted,” said Richard L. Revesz, an expert on environmental law at New York University. “That’s…
- Has Biden Ditched the Environment? – …curtailing fossil-fuel leasing now and preserving the option to lease or not lease in the future,” he adds.
- 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.
- 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.…
- 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.”
- Enviros Call On DC Circ. To Nix Offshore Lease Program – “Interior fails to give the same treatment to environmental and social costs and gives no explanation for the different treatment,” CSE’s counsel Michael Livermore said during Thursday’s oral arguments.
- DC Circ. Tosses Bid To Nix Offshore Oil, Gas Lease Program – But despite the result, CES’ counsel Michael Livermore told Law360 that the court left the door open to future challenges on one of its major arguments: that Interior should use a quantitative rather than qualitative approach to assess the informational or option value of delaying leasing.
- Trump’s Executive Order Is a Gift to Coal Executives. It Won’t Do Anything for Coal Miners. – Now there’s a window of opportunity for coal companies. Lifting the moratorium, says Jayni Foley Hein of the Institute for Policy Integrity, “will allow new lease sales to go forward using the same outdated minimum bids, rental rates, and stagnant royalty rates that have been used for decades.”
- 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…