Sentences with phrase «u.s. drilling leases»

NEW YORK (Reuters)-- The Trump administration heralded the government's sale last month of U.S. drilling leases in the Gulf of Mexico as a bellwether.

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The plan would open the door for drilling in areas far beyond the U.S. epicenter of offshore drilling in the central and western Gulf of Mexico, giving oil and gas companies the opportunity to explore areas left out of leases for decades.

Expanding offshore drilling April 28 In the same executive order, Trump ordered the Department of the Interior to create a new five - year schedule for leasing blocks of the U.S. outer continental shelf for oil and gas exploration.

Release of the master plan comes as the federal government, even as it forges ahead on offshore wind leases, also has released plans to open nearly the entire U.S. coastline to oil and gas drilling.

In October, Congress approved a conference report attached to the U.S. Department of Interior's appropriations bill that cited expanded leasing in the Arctic Ocean, including seismic testing and exploratory drilling, and called for independent scientific analysis before the agency proceeds.

Obama will visit the Gulf again on May 28 and ordered today an extension of a moratorium on new offshore drilling in all U.S. waters until the end of the year as well as cancelled planned lease sales.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A new offshore oil and gas plan from the U.S. Department of the Interior blocks two drilling leases in the Arctic, but allows a new lease in Alaska's Cook Inlet and 10 new leases in the Gulf of Mexico over the next five years — a step that will worsen climate change by ensuring significant greenhouse gas pollution for the next 70 years.

Also newsworthy is the Trump Administration's capricious process for public participation and comment on the release of a draft 5 - year plan for outer continental shelf offshore drilling in U.S. federal waters, including Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's back - and - forth exemption of Florida and the inclusion of Arctic leases.

Environmental groups and three Montana landowners sued Tuesday to cancel hundreds of recent oil and gas lease sales, saying the U.S. government's leasing of public lands is skyrocketing without understanding how all that drilling will affect water quality and climate change.

The New York Times recently shed light on yet another important aspect of gas drilling leases, that U.S. Department of Agriculture rural housing loans are being routinely granted on properties with oil and gas leases using a so - called «categorical exclusion» from the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), although such exclusions are only supposed to apply to properties without environmental risks.