Sentences with phrase «federal lands and waters»

The Congressional Budget Office recently estimated that opening up all additional federal lands and waters for drilling would bring in just $ 7 billion in revenue over the next 10 years.

The Every Kid in a Park program has launched, and is providing free passes for all federal lands and waters to fourth graders and their families.

The Federal government already hands fossil fuel companies more than $ 7 billion a year in corporate subsidies related to their production on federal lands and waters.

Try saying «post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy» ten times fast.Washington Examiner (4/29/13) reports: «No wonder Institute for Energy Research President Thomas J. Pyle contends that «Obama has kept keep billions of acres of federal lands and waters behind the most onerous regulatory blockade in American history.

The Obama rule is not only costly but also unnecessary and would ultimately lead to less energy production on federal lands and waters.

The fossil fuels produced from federal lands and waters are responsible for nearly 28 % of the country's energy - related greenhouse gas emissions.

This article examines the emissions implications of a cessation of new leases for fossil fuel extraction on U.S. federal lands and waters.

Olson will argue that the federal government, by failing to adequately regulate greenhouse gas pollution and by continuing to lease new federal lands and waters for fossil fuel extraction, as recently as this year, is violating the kids» constitutional right to life, liberty and property.

Oil and gas extraction would drop as well, but more gradually, as federal lands and waters represent a smaller fraction of national production, and these resources take longer to develop.

One of the most important aspects of this oil and gas strategy is that it should result in large increases in Federal revenue, particularly if the oil and gas come from Federal lands and waters.

This move is especially important as a new administration hostile to the scientific consensus about climate change — and eager to open federal lands and waters to more drilling — prepares to take power.

About 594 million barrels of oil and 3,724 billion cubic feet of natural gas were produced on federal lands and waters in 2012, according to the Congressional Research Service.

Each participating 4th grader will receive an Every Kid in a Park voucher good for free admission for them and their families to all of the country's federal lands and waters from September 2017 - August 2018.

The incoming administration will have full control over leasing of renewable energy on federal lands and waters, including vast tracts of public lands across the West and the open waters off the East and West coasts.

Michael Gerrard, director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School, said he's also expecting to see «a lot more litigation about fossil fuel extraction, especially on federal lands and waters,» as the Trump administration seeks to expand domestic energy production.

DENVER — The first report in the Energy Institute's Energy Accountability Series finds that proposals from Hillary Clinton and other politicians to ban oil, gas, and coal production on federal lands and waters would cost America hundreds of thousands of jobs and billions in revenue.

The funding includes $ 9.7 million from the Open Space Land Acquisition and Development program and $ 685,000 in federal Land and Water Conservation Fund grants.

The grants, funded through the state's Open Space Lands Acquisition and Development program and the federal Land and Water Conservation Fund program, were announced by Gov. George Ryan at the Illinois Association of Park Districts» annual meeting in Peoria.

The projects will be funded by the state Open Space Land Acquisition and Development grants and the federal Land and Water Conservation Fund grants.

Combined, oil and gas companies hold leases to nearly 68 million acres of federal land and waters that they are not producing oil and gas (Figure 4).

Not exact matches

On Wednesday, Trump is expected to sign an executive order related to the 1906 Antiquities Act, which enables the president to designate federal areas of land and water as national monuments to protect them from drilling, mining and development, the source said.

They argue that small bodies of water on their property expose them to undue regulation and could require them to obtain federal permits that dictate how they use their own land.

That article landed Manafort in hot water with prosecutors and the judge presiding over the federal criminal case against him.

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.

Meanwhile, we will be bullied some more by our federal government and neighboring provincial government, because we are protecting our land water and coast.

Mass Audubon submits comments on select land - based wind projects in Massachusetts and at the federal level with a focus on siting, impacts to protected land, habitat, and water resources.

As in past election cycles, LCV Action Fund supported federal candidates who demonstrated a commitment to leading on climate change, promoting clean energy, and protecting our air, water, land and wildlife.

Ambode said that «Governors are the owners of the land in their states but underneath the land and even inside the water, the Federal Government is structured in a way that it controls those potentials adding that In a situation where the states are being spoon - fed, because I call the federation account more or less like spoon - feeding.

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

Authored by 77 scientists from the Forest Service, other federal agencies and universities across the United States, the report outlines the way forests respond physiologically to drought - stress, as well as steps land managers and foresters can take to mitigate the impacts of rising temperatures and a lack of water.

The proposed cuts include $ 269.78 billion from energy programs, including $ 158.7 billion of fossil fuel subsidies; $ 167.09 billion of agricultural subsidies, including $ 89.82 billion of federal crop insurance disaster aid; $ 212.02 billion of transportation subsidies, including $ 125.80 billion of general revenue transfers to the Highway Trust Fund; $ 101.8 billion of federal flood, crop and nuclear insurance subsidies; and $ 24.99 billion from wasteful or environmental damaging public lands and water projects.

The Water Authority's haul from the sale of federal lands eventually came to almost $ 300 million and helped bolster financing for the pipelines, tunnels, pumps and more that Las Vegas eventually built to double its capacity to move water out of the Colorado RWater Authority's haul from the sale of federal lands eventually came to almost $ 300 million and helped bolster financing for the pipelines, tunnels, pumps and more that Las Vegas eventually built to double its capacity to move water out of the Colorado Rwater out of the Colorado River.

«The Antiquities Act does not give the federal government unlimited power to lock up millions of acres of land and water, and it's time we ended this abusive practice,» he added.

CURWOOD: So, if I hear you correctly, Pat, you're saying perhaps the strong if not the strongest strategy here would be to be suing the federal government for selling off fossil fuels from public lands and waters at a time when the government knows that the combustion of those fuels is in the process of destroying the planet?

When the land was threatened again, this time by a water company planning to dam Redwood Creek and flood the area, the Kents donated it to the federal government, and on January 9th, 1908, President Theodore Roosevelt declared it a National Monument, protecting the land permanently.

Further, despite the federal government = s willingness to make public lands and waters available to energy developers, of the 47.5 million acres of on - shore federal lands that are currently being leased by oil and gas companies, only about 13 million acres are actually Ain production @, or producing oil and gas (Figure 2).

By preventing private companies from mining and burning coal from federal lands, BLM can better protect our climate and public health, the waters we use, the air we breathe, and the wild places we enjoy.

Socio (s): WHO, WMO, Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management of the Netherlands, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety of Germany, Italian Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea, Swiss Federal Office for the Environment

On other issues, however, Trump has said he will work for clean drinking water and preserving federal lands.

More specifically, majorities of Americans say the federal government is doing too little to protect water quality (69 %), air quality (64 %), animals and their habitats (63 %) or open lands in national parks (57 %).

The Missouri River Basin is a threatened bioregion due to unmitigated abuse by extractive fossil fuel industries, aided and abetted by federal and local government policies and actions which deny sovereign and inherent Native rights to manage land and water resources.

«State and federal funding remains insufficient to address land subsidence that threatens the California water system, and carbon market revenues could help fill the funding gap,» added Campbell Ingram, executive officer of the Sacramento - San Joaquin Delta Conservancy.»

Oregon Jeff Merkley is joining Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in calling for a halt to new oil, natural gas and coal leases on federal lands and in coastal waters.

Reports indicate that 20 % of all U.S. greenhouse gas emissions can be traced back to fossil fuel development from federal public lands and waters.

«State and federal funding remains insufficient to address land subsidence that threatens the California water system, and carbon market revenues could help fill the funding gap,»

«State and federal funding remains insufficient to address land subsidence that threatens the California water system, and carbon market revenues could help fill the funding gap,» said Campbell Ingram, executive officer of the Sacramento - San Joaquin Delta Conservancy.»

And they are SCREAMING all over Facebook because the rule that does not allow the sale of disposable water bottles on Federal Lands — though the sale of the same bottles containing sugary drinks is fine — has been eliminated along with the White House Employees only Bike Share rack in DC.

At the same time, commercial - scale wind projects pose new challenges on land and water, and state, federal, and local governments are climbing a steep learning curve as they consider proposals for new facilities.

The goal is to force these hard - working Americans into compliance with federal mandates on climate change — which will surely include new restrictions on their use of water, livestock feed, fertilizers, livestock management techniques, and who knows what all else that violate every principle of real land management ever established through the test of time.

Many proposed solar power plants are planned for federal land, and the need to undergo federal environmental review has complicated the licensing process as disputes have arisen over the industrial projects» impact on endangered wildlife like the desert tortoise and on scarce water supplies.