Sentences with phrase «coal leased during»
A ton of publicly owned coal leased during the Obama administration will, on average, cause damages estimated at between $ 22 and $ 237, using the federal government's social cost of carbon estimates — yet the average price per ton for those coal leases was only $ 1.03.
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During that time, the Interior Department — the part of the administration responsible for the federal leasing program — has put a halt on new federal coal leases, with a few exceptions.
To do so, we must first determine the amount of carbon pollution that will be released from BLM's recent coal leases; this analysis will focus on coal that has been leased during the Obama administration.
The Buffalo RMP proposal doesn't include sufficient detail to calculate the quantity of carbon pollution as precisely as this report did for coal already leased during the Obama administration, but it is possible to estimate the carbon pollution using the same methodology that BLM has used for similar Wyoming coal.
The Bureau of Land Management has leased 2.2 billion tons of publicly owned coal during the Obama administration, unlocking 3.9 billion metric tons of carbon pollution.
The Bureau of Land Management has leased 2.2 billion tons of publicly owned coal during the Obama administration, unlocking 3.9 billion metric tons of carbon pollution.This is equivalent to the annual emissions of over 825 million passenger vehicles, and more than the 3.7 billion tons that was emitted in the entire European Union in 2012.
This analysis shows that the BLM has leased 2,237,004,772 tons of publicly owned coal during the Obama administration, which has unlocked an estimated 3,922,481,766 metric tons of carbon pollution — nearly four gigatons.
(5) Whenever, before or during the drilling of a well not within the boundaries of an operating coal mine, the well operator encounters conditions of a nature which renders drilling of the bore hole or a portion thereof impossible, or more hazardous than usual, the well operator, upon verbal notice to the department, may immediately plug all or part of the bore hole, if drilling has occurred, and commence a new bore hole not more than 50 feet from the old bore hole if the location of the new bore hole does not violate section 3215 (relating to well location restrictions) and, in the case of a well subject to act of July 25, 1961 (P.L. 825, No. 359), known as the Oil and Gas Conservation Law, if the new location complies with existing laws, regulations and spacing orders and the new bore hole is at least 330 feet from the nearest lease boundary.