Sentences with phrase «federal offshore waters»
«A proposal for the first oil and gas drilling in federal offshore waters of the Arctic took a step forward Thursday as regulators released a draft environmental impact statement, which reflects concerns about the effects of the project on marine life and local communities.»
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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.
Bringing the Seattle - based company closer to the nation's seat of power could be a competitive advantage for Amazon, with growing calls to regulate tech monopolies, billions of dollars in untaxed offshore stockpiles at stake and the habit some tech companies have of getting into hot water for operating on the fringes of state and federal rules.
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.
Two offshore wind farms are proposed for the state for open water that has already been leased from the federal government.
That could set the stage for other offshore wind projects all along the East Coast as the federal government expands the waters available for new offshore wind farm development.
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.»
In order to drill in offshore federal waters, companies bid on leases that grant them the rights to oil and gas production.
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.
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..
At a time when the federal government is jeopardizing our country's future, Governor Cuomo's legislation to prohibit offshore drilling and the expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure in New York waters is exactly the kind of policy that will get us on a truly sustainable path.
The general subject of the hearing was Federal stewardship of offshore oil and gas drilling in U.S. waters.
The US government is progressing offshore wind zones in federal waters off Massachusetts and in the New York / New Jersey Bight.
With President - elect Donald Trump pledging to expand offshore drilling, a coalition of environmental groups called on President Obama to permanently protect federal waters from expanded oil leasing.
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.
Asm Calderon, an avid surfer, has joint - authored a bill with Assemblymember Al Muratsuchi to declare surfing the official state sport of California, elevated the fight against plastic pollution with his proposal to limit the distribution of single - use straws and has firmly rejected the federal administration's attempt to open up California waters to new offshore oil drilling.
Today, the Trump administration announced a five - year offshore drilling proposal that would open up nearly all federal coastal waters for fossil fuel exploration.
However, the restrictions on American offshore oil and gas production has always been precarious; the executive branch has complete authority to decide what happens in the federal waters of the outer continental shelf, from 3 to 200 miles out to sea.
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.
This briefing paper examines how US oil production might be phased down to align with the Paris Agreement goals, focusing on offshore drilling in federal waters in particular.
She has prepared Environmental Impacts Statements, Operations Plans, Monitoring and Mitigation Plans, and Deep Water Port Applications and is very familiar with the requirements of and compliance with federal, state, and local laws, regulations, and guidelines for projects related to offshore energy development including National / State Environmental Policy Acts (Environmental Assessment / Environmental Impact Statements), Marine Protection Research and Sanctuaries Act, Clean Water Act (including National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System), Coastal Zone Management Act, Water Resources Development Act, Endangered Species Act, Magnuson - Stevens Act, Rivers and Harbors Act, and the Oil Pollution Act.
Our opportunity here isn't only about protecting the ocean waters of America, marine life, a favorite surf break, jobs or a given beach community; it's about demanding that our government utilize the best available science and data and listen to the massive outpouring of public opposition to destructive offshore oil and gas development, to shift the tides of energy development instead away from fossil fuels and toward renewables; it's about holding our President and federal agencies accountable for decisions they make about the management of the ocean; it's about protecting the ocean and every coastline from the atrocity and injustice of offshore drilling and exploration; it's about protecting clean water, air and beaches now and for the future; it's about protecting one another, and the Earth.
Jan 4, 2018 — The Trump administration has just announced that it would open up vast new stretches of federal waters for offshore oil and gas drilling off the Arctic, Pacific and Atlantic coasts.
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.
Private companies are no longer allowed to construct offshore sites in federal waters stretching from the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas in Alaska to New England and Chesapeake Bay in the Atlantic.
This shortsighted effort to re-open offshore drilling in the federal waters is a glaring example of how Big Oil has its claws dug deep into our nation's halls of power.
In that role, she led over 300 attorneys in 16 offices nationwide and acquired significant experience in onshore and offshore energy development (conventional and renewable), the administration of federal water projects, conservation and wildlife legal requirements, and public land law.