Sentences with phrase «us federal waters»

The Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act requires the Secretary of the Interior, through BOEM, to prepare and maintain a schedule of proposed oil and gas lease sales in federal waters, indicating the size, timing, and location of auctions that would best meet national energy needs for the five - year period following its approval.

Trump's new executive order now urges the U.S. Department of Interior to reassess and replace the most recent five - year oil and gas development plan the Obama administration put in place for the outer continental shelf, which covers federal waters off all U.S. coasts.

Overview of Renewable Energy on the Outer Continental Shelf — BOEM is responsible for offshore renewable energy development in Federal waters and anticipates future development on the OCS from three general sources: offshore wind, ocean wave, and ocean current energy.

Atlantic Sand Assessment Project — To help coastal communities recover from Hurricane Sandy, promote resilient coastal systems, and help build a national offshore sand inventory, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) sponsored offshore surveys to identify new sources of sand in federal waters from Miami, Florida to Massachusetts in 2015 and several site specific surveys in 2016 and 2017.

America within a few years could be extracting oil from federal waters in the Arctic Ocean, but it won't be from a remote drilling platform.

An oil and gas lease sale allows qualified bidders to compete for exclusive rights to explore blocks in federal waters off Alaska.

Like other state and federal water management agencies, the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder must consider these targets when making decisions about using water.

Would - be swimmers will still get advisories up and down the lakefront letting them know if bacteria levels exceed federal water quality standards set by theU.S.

Would - be swimmers will still get advisories up and down the lakefront letting them know if bacteria levels exceed federal water quality standards set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

That's thanks to the Clean Water Act, originally enacted in 1948 as the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, which was significantly reorganized and expanded in 1972.

Cuomo urged LIPA to approve an offshore wind farm 30 miles from Montauk and said the state would commit to other offshore projects that would place hundreds of turbines in federal waters off the Long Island coast by 2030.

A coalition including cooling industry representatives and environmental activist Erin Brockovich called on the state to enforce federal water regulations, regularly test the water supply and improve New York's water infrastructure, as data show the state has the highest number of Legionnaire's disease cases in the nation.

ALBANY — A federal water study commissioned by the Cuomo administration as it weighed a key decision on fracking was edited and delayed by state officials before it was published, a Capital review has found.

The wind farm will be located in federal waters, hence BOEM's management of the process.

Now that the federal government has restricted fishing in federal waters affected by the Gulf oil disaster, shall we now see the state governments restrict fishing in their jurisdictions?

State officials wrote that developers for the proposed 124.14 - mile long Constitution Pipeline, which would have taken natural gas from Pennsylvania to Schoharie County, had not shown they could comply with the Federal Water Pollution Control Act.

Some believe that if the U.S. put a licensing system into place for federal waters out to the 200 - mile boundary, it would bring investment in fish farms and generate revenue.

In the last four years, you cut permits and licenses on federal land and federal waters in half.»

BP faced $ 12 million in fines for a misdemeanor violation of the federal Water Pollution Control Act.

Last week, DOE announced it will hold an auction for the rights to build wind turbines in 344,000 acres of federal waters off New Jersey in November, the latest of several lease auctions it has announced (E&EN ews PM, Sept. 23).

The state and federal water projects will be able to hold back 150,000 acre - feet of water that would otherwise be required to flow down rivers and through the delta to maintain salinity standards.

complained that the rebuilding plan for the red snapper had failed after NOAA closed the season in South Atlantic federal waters for two years in a row.

The new rules would allow them in federal waters, known as the outer continental shelf, which extend to the edge of U.S. territory about 230 miles (200 nautical miles, or 370 kilometers) out.

Several years later, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) extended these MPAs into the federal waters of the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary.

Although the policy has a fairly detailed to - do list for NOAA researchers, it's vague on exactly how it plans to regulate the industry — just hinting, for example, that it will prefer «only native or naturalized species in federal waters» unless other species are proved to be safe to the ecosystem.

However, budgets for state and federal water regulators have decreased.

But Richard Pyle, a researcher at Hawaii's Bishop Museum, said he and other scientists have concluded that the ecological interconnectedess of the region — including the fish larvae that are dispersed on currents, and the sharks and other pelagic fish that travel vast distances — extends beyond federal waters.

In a report released 14 December, the Ocean Policy Task Force sketched out how nine new regional organizations would create master plans for federal waters by drawing on a massive database of scientific information.

Regulators say redundant layers of protection usually prevent waste from getting that far, but EPA data shows that in the three years analyzed by ProPublica, more than 7,500 well test failures involved what federal water protection regulations describe as «fluid migration» and «significant leaks.»

Collectively we harvest the majority of the seafood caught in North Pacific federal waters.

The Federal Water Quality Association honored high school students for cutting edge...

The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended by the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, directs the President, at section 311 (j)(1)(C)(33 U.S.C. 1321 (j)(1)(C)-RRB- and section 311 (j)(5)(33 U.S.C. 1321 (j)(5)-RRB-, respectively, to issue regulations «establishing procedures, methods, and equipment and other requirements for equipment to prevent discharges of oil and hazardous substances from vessels and from onshore facilities and offshore facilities, and to contain such discharges.»

Just one week after scientists warned of unprecedented change brought on by warming in the Arctic, President Obama announced permanent protection for 115 million acres of federal waters in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas.

In order to drill in offshore federal waters, companies bid on leases that grant them the rights to oil and gas production.

The same can not be said about oil and gas production in federal waters.

A National Clean Water Commission of blue - ribbon experts in law, engineering, sciences, health, technology, finance and economics to recommend new national goals to replace the tired and expired goals of current federal water laws, and a policy and business plan to implement them.

ConocoPhillips is a powerful member of the API powerhouse of fossil fuel interests and is very determined to open more federal waters to oil drilling -LSB-...] in an April 22, 2003, news release: «The partnership between the National Science Teachers Association and ConocoPhillips has produced a very valuable tool for our nation's science teachers,» said Gerald Wheeler, NSTA Executive Director.

Today, some 4,000 platforms operate in the U.S. federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico, primarily off the coastlines of Louisiana and Texas, and off the coast of Alaska, producing approximately 565 million barrels of oil per year, according to the Energy Information Agency.

That in turn could be achieved by adjusting the way they apply water to the fields, the kind of crops they grow and the way that state and federal water managers deliver the water.

Energy - Water Nexus: Improvements to Federal Water Use Data Would Increase Understanding of Trends in Power Plant Water Use.

Stephen Boutwell, a spokesperson for the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, which oversees wind farm developments in federal waters, says his agency is addressing concerns raised by fishermen.

Friends of the Earth — US is proud to stand with a broad coalition in opposition to the draft 5 - year plan to expand offshore oil drilling in US federal waters.

A utility - scale offshore wind farm planned for the federal waters off the coast of New Jersey, Garden State Offshore Energy is a partnership between Deepwater Wind and PSEG.

His website says that includes offshore federal waters.

In its draft leasing plan that will set the boundaries for oil development in federal waters from 2017 to 2022, the Obama Administration proposed allowing offshore drilling along the Atlantic Coast between Virginia and Georgia.

These lease sales have generated approximately $ 16 million in winning bids for more than a million acres in federal waters.

The proposed area is the largest in federal waters and will nearly double the area available for offshore wind energy projects in the U.S..

Prohibits transportation within the navigable waters of the state of crude oil produced from the federal waters, designated as the «North Atlantic Planning Area».

The US government is progressing offshore wind zones in federal waters off Massachusetts and in the New York / New Jersey Bight.

«It's utterly baffling that fracking has occurred in state and federal waters without regulators being aware,» said Stefanie Sekich - Quinn, policy manager for the Surfrider Foundation.