The Interior Department also will find ways to reduce the time it takes to process permits to drill, said Katharine MacGregor, Interior's acting assistant secretary for land and minerals management, as she testified to the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.Alan ...
Greens ask court to stop gas leasing on Roan Plateau in western Colorado A coalition of environment groups asked a federal court last week to block the Bush administration from selling leases for natural gas drilling on the Roan Plateau in western Colorado. The groups, led by Earthjustice, aske...
But Biden’s move could be the first step in an eventual goal to ban all leases and permits to drill on federal land. Mineral leasing laws state that federal lands are for many uses, including extracting oil and gas, but the Democrat could set out to rewrite those laws, said Kevin Book...
The governor's top lawyer, coastal adviser and natural resources secretary told state lawmakers that Edwards thinks Biden's moratorium on new oil and gas drilling leases on federal land and waters is the wrong approach to combat climate change. Environmental groups have lauded Biden's app...
On January 27, 2021, President Biden signed Executive Order 14008 ("E.O. 14008"), implementing a temporary pause on the auction of new oil and gas leases on federal land and water while the President's administration reviews the program. The review will consider potential climate and ...
§ 7439, that transferred jurisdiction to the Department of the Interior with instructions to enter into oil and gas leases for the development of the hydrocarbons within the Reserves. In November 2000, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced its intention to amend the Resource Management ...
In 2007, the Department of the Interior (Interior) collected about $10.5 billion in revenues from companies that hold federal oil and gas leases. Interior's Minerals Management Service manages offshore leases, while its Bureau of Land Management manages onshore leases and leases in the National ...
The administration of US President Joe Biden said it is set to resume selling leases to drill for oil and gas on federal lands to help drive down the price at the gas pump. The sale, beginning on Monday, is an about-face for Biden, who during his campaign for the White House called ...
The executive actions direct the federal government to elevate climate change to a national security priority, conserve at least 30 percent of all federal land and water by 2030, suspend new leases for natural gas and oil development on federal lands and waters, create a commission fo...
In other terms, the oil and gas industry holds an area of public land in the West that isthe size of South Carolina. In January of 2021, President Biden ordereda pause on new federal oil and gas leaseswhile the Interior Department evaluates the impact of America’s public lands drilling ...