Sentences with phrase «in federal waters»

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

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

There was a lot not to like in the federal water law that the president just signed, but some of the money in there is for additional flood control projects.

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.

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.

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.

Late in Obama's second term, he banned new drilling in federal waters in parts of the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans using a 1950s - era law that environmental groups say would require a drawn out court challenge to reverse.

«The mandatory funds [for the Trust] would be set aside from royalty revenues generated by oil and gas development in Federal waters of the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS), already included in the administration's five year plan.

The company is also in the early stages of development of its South Fork Wind Farm, a 90 MW offshore wind farm located in federal waters 30 miles east of Montauk, N.Y. that is scheduled to become operational in 2022.

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.

Coast Guard law enforcement crews interdicted a Mexican lancha boat crew engaged illegally fishing in federal waters off the South Texas coast, Monday afternoon.

«Fracking has largely been in a shroud of secrecy,» explained Miyoko Sakashita, oceans director at Center for Biological Diversity, whose group was tipped off to the practice after reporters revealed that fracking was occurring in federal waters off California.

Stopping new leases in federal waters would keep 61.5 gigatons of carbon dioxide out of our atmosphere and oceans.

«I am pleased to receive the GOMESA distribution that is derived from the oil and gas exploration in the federal waters of the Gulf of Mexico,» said Alabama Governor Kay Ivey.

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.

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

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?

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.

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..

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

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.

A court settlement filed today requires the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Coast Guard to ensure that toxic oil - dispersing chemicals used in federal waters off California will not harm sea turtles, whales and other endangered species or their habitats.

The 2000 U.S. Shark Finning Prohibition Act restricts shark finning in all federal waters and both coasts.

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.

And in February, the Department of the Interior agreed to a moratorium on fracking in federal waters in the Pacific until an environmental assessment could be completed.

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.

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

Soon after the Trump administration announced a plan to expand offshore drilling in federal waters, it granted a waiver to Florida — a crucial Trump state in 2016.

Meanwhile, Landrieu, Murkowski and others plan floor attempts to provide coastal states a share of revenues from oil and gas development that may occur in federal waters off their shores.

DOI's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is responsible for overseeing offshore renewable energy development in Federal waters.

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.

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.

Floating offshore wind projects typically are located in federal waters but because the cables connect on shore, they cross state waters.

The 5 - year leases are the first - ever that have been issued for investigating the feasibility of building offshore wind farms in federal waters, said Frank Quimby, a spokesman for the U.S. Department of the Interior, which announced the leases Tuesday.

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 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.