My careers experience includes 15 years of Oil and
Gas Land Administration and 18 years of Airline Sales, Customer Service and Accounting.
Not exact matches
Environmental groups are suing the Trump
administration for selling oil and
gas leases on huge swaths of Western U.S. public
lands while allegedly ignoring policies meant to protect an imperiled bird.
Obama later spelled out that his
administration's support of the natural
gas economy would entail a requirement that
gas producers disclose the chemicals they pump under public
lands to crack
gas - bearing rock.
The Trump
administration will suspend a rule to limit methane leaks from oil and
gas operations on federal
land, but its true aim may be to kill the Obama - era requirement.
Reading between the lines, some see the president's statement as a signal that the
administration will try to push through reforms to federal leasing programs for oil,
gas and coal on public
lands.
«But right now, you're working with an
administration who in their own infrastructure bill says that they're going to pay for it by oil and
gas on federal
lands, all over federal
lands.
Besides working for eight years to overturn the Clinton
administration's «Roadless Rule» that prevented road building (and the logging that usually follows) on 58.5 million acres of national forests, the Bush White House has opened up 45 million additional acres of public
land across the American West to oil and
gas drilling during its tenure.
The
Administration's final plan reflects its short - sighted policy of limiting access to oil and natural
gas on federal
lands.
This action by President Obama in his last days in office is another disturbing example of short - sighted policy decisions made by the
Administration to limit access to oil and natural
gas on federal
lands.
It's the wrong path for America — a path also defined by
administration policies that have resulted in declining oil and natural
gas production on federal
lands, an onslaught ofunnecessary regulation and continuation of the harmful Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS).
The February decision is also significant in recognizing that the
administration's one - year suspension of the BLM methane rule would have caused irreparable harm to our air, the climate and those like Joletta who live and work on or near public and tribal
lands with oil and
gas development.
In the United States, methane regulations established under the Obama
administration are currently slated for elimination or modification, including the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) rules for managing methane from new oil and
gas sources as well as the Bureau of
Land Management's (BLM's) rules for reducing methane from oil and gas operations on federal l
Land Management's (BLM's) rules for reducing methane from oil and
gas operations on federal
landland.
WASHINGTON D.C. — The Institute for Energy Research (IER) responded today to the Energy Information
Administration's release of the Annual Energy Outlook 2013 Reference case, which revealed dramatic increases in shale oil and natural
gas production on private and state
lands in Texas and North Dakota.
On September 6, 2016, FSRN's Hannah Leigh Myers spoke with Jeremy Nichols, Climate & Energy Program Director for WildEarth Guardians on «Non-profits sue Obama
administration over oil and
gas leases on public
lands.»
Considering the oil,
gas, and coal boom that the Trump
Administration hopes to unleash on federal
lands and in offshore waters, you might expect stepped - up protection for the American public and the environment.
More: Department of the Interior, Time, Wikipedia Department of the Interior Dept of Interior Cancels Bush
Administration Oil Shale Leasing Plans Renewable Energy Development to be a «Top Priority» for Department of Interior Dept of Interior to Re-Review Offshore Oil Drilling Plans Controversial Oil & Natural
Gas Leases on Utah Public
Land Cancelled by Dept of Interior
For those not following closely Salazar's first month on the job, the «again made clear» referred to there is in reference to the Secretary's halting of oil and natural
gas development leases on public
lands in Utah, also put in place in the last days of the Bush
Administration.
Tim DeChristopher committed one of the most famous acts of climate activism in the nation: by bidding on a parcel of
land that oil and
gas companies were keen to snap up during a midnight hour auction put on by the Bush
administration (and of course, being entirely unable to pay for it), he inspired the fledgling, next generation green movement to fight back.
via: Washington Post, NRDC Oil &
Gas Exploration Judge Temporarily Halts Oil &
Gas Leasing on Utah Public
Lands Bush
Administration to Open Public
Lands Near Utah's National Parks for Natural
Gas and OIl Drilling Student Monkey - Wrench Raises Bids, Then Funds, for Utah
Land Leases
More: NRDC US Public
Lands Bush
Administration to Open Public
Lands Near Utah's National Parks for Natural
Gas and Oil Drilling Student Monkey - Wrencher Raises Bids, Then Funds, For Utah
Land Leases New Solar Energy Applications Will Continue to be Accepted by BLM