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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…
- 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.
- 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…
- 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.
- Has Biden Ditched the Environment? – …curtailing fossil-fuel leasing now and preserving the option to lease or not lease in the future,” he adds.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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…