Sentences with phrase «many federal lands»

The drilling work is just to the north of a protest camp on federal land where pipeline opponents had gathered since August.

The Obama administration decided to block construction on federal land shortly after a U.S. District Court judge rejected a request from Native Americans for a court order to block the project.

Fighting wildfires on federal land costs the United States $ 1.7 billion a year, according to figures cited in the paper.

The rule in question is meant to reduce leaking, venting and flaring of methane from drilling activity on federal land.

In theory, the U.S. Department of the Interior, through its Bureau of Land Management, is supposed to auction mining leases to federal lands to the highest bidder.

President Trump has vowed to help bring back the industry by rolling back environmental regulations, offering tax breaks to invest in infrastructure and ending a moratorium on mining on federal land enforced by President Obama.

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.

Most of that activity takes place on federal land or involves federal minerals.

The Trump administration will suspend a rule to limit methane leaks from oil and gas operations on federal land, but its true aim may be to kill the Obama - era requirement.

The website offers access to images of more than five million federal land title records issued since 1820.

Fact is Utah is a in a huge dispute with the Federal Government over Federal Land 65 % of the state and Education.

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.

LINCOLN, MA — State and federal land conservation grants totaling $ 2 million have bolstered Mass Audubon's effort to acquire the recently restored Tidmarsh Farms — a former commercial cranberry operation in Plymouth — and create a 479 - acre wildlife sanctuary.

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.

New Federal regulations, announced on Friday, updated rules for 95,000 oil and gas wells that operate on Federal land.

agos State Governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode on Friday called for the closure of the Federal Land Registry in Lagos, describing it as an aberration which the current ongoing Constitutional amendment process must address in line with the principle of fiscal federalism.

Due to the government shutdown, the National Park Service shutdown a privately funded Virginia park on federal land.

The National Park Service has ordered the closure of a Virginia park that sits on federal land, even though the government provides no resources for its maintenance or operation.

While faulting the Federal Land Registry in Lagos which was established when Lagos was Federal Capital Territory, the Governor said the continuous operation of the registry was an aberration and it ought to have been closed and all title therein moved to the Lagos State Land Registry, urging the federal lawmakers to urgently correct the anomaly.

Indeed, at 24 per cent in 2012, it is considerably lower even than the ETR observed for the fifth North Sea hydrocarbons producer, the German Federal Land of Schleswig - Holstein, whose government has been increasing the statutory royalty rate in line with rising oil prices in recent years — from 12.5 per cent in 2003 to 21 per cent as of the time of writing — with the result that the ETR in the German sector of the North Sea in 2012 came to 33 per cent.

Slamming what he called «a massive federal land grab,» Trump signed an executive order directing his interior secretary to review the designation of dozens of national monuments on federal lands.

Even before Trump officially opened his high - profile review last spring of federal lands protected as national monuments, the Department of Interior was focused on the potential for oil and gas exploration at a protected Utah site, internal agency documents show.

Any claim arising from the activities of a Federal land bank, a Federal intermediate credit bank, or a bank for cooperatives.

Of course Reed has no idea that the federal proposals are only minimum standards and will only apply for drilling on federal lands.

Environmental groups that vowed to fight President Donald Trump's efforts to roll back his predecessor's plans to curb global warming made good on their promise, teaming up with an American Indian tribe to ask a federal court to block an order that lifts restrictions on coal sales from federal lands.

Federal Lands Vegetation Management Protocol — Vote Passed (300 - 118, 13 Not Voting) Passage of the bill would allow utilities to submit long - term plans to the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management for advance approval of vegetation management and other maintenance activities on electricity right - of - ways on federal lands.

King Cove Land Exchange — Vote Passed (248 - 179, 6 Not Voting) The House passed the bill that would require the Interior Department to convey to the state of Alaska, if requested, 206 acres of federal land within the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge and Izembek Wilderness for the purpose of constructing a single - lane gravel road between the towns of King Cove and Cold Bay, Alaska.

Red River Gradient Boundary Survey Act — Vote Passed (250 - 171, 10 Not Voting) The bill would require the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to pay for a private survey to identify the south boundary line along the Red River separating Texas and Oklahoma with regards to land title and ownership, with the states of Texas and Oklahoma to determine which lands are federal lands and which are private.

Rep. Faso's Vote Record Tracking Rep. Faso in the Age of Trump fivethirtyeight.com Federal Lands Vegetation Management Protocol — Vote Passed (300 - 118, 13 Not Voting) Passage of the bill would allow utilities to submit long - term plans to the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management for advance approval of vegetation management and other maintenance activities -LSB-...]

The Oneida Indian Nation and its «Change the Mascot» campaign scored a big victory this month when the Obama administration said it would not allow the Washington Redskins to build a new stadium on federal land at the site of the existing RFK Memorial Stadium in Washington, D.C.

Congressmen Sean Patrick Maloney, a Democrat, and Chris Gibson, a Republican, voted against legislation that would prohibit any federal oversight of oil and gas drilling using fracturing, or fracking, on federal lands.

«My administration is putting an end to the war on coal,» President Donald Trump said March 28, before he signed an executive order that lifted the ban on coal leases on federal land.

In the long term, the species requires more habitat, which perhaps could be accomplished by making the adjacent federal land in Siuslaw National Forest suitable for martens.

Obama plugged the federal government's role, with major oil and gas groups pressing the White House to confine regulations to federal lands and environmentalists equally as concerned about the president's commitment to renewable energy.

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

The bill would push the minimum bid companies have to pay for federal lands to $ 4 per acre and the rental rate to $ 3 per acre per year.

Eleven percent of the country's natural gas and 5 percent of its oil come from oil and gas wells on federal lands.

The bill includes measures to stop excessive government regulations, streamline bureaucratic permit processes, eliminate red tape, and open new federal land to energy production to create thousands of new American jobs.

Trump's appointment to oversee America's parks and federal lands has pledged to protect them and public access while undoing federal regulation

Conservation groups allege that the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Department of Energy failed to consider the spirit of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and also violated the Endangered Species Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, and the Federal Land Policy and Management Act.

While the choice of Clovis is clearly a break from past administrations, the most important qualification may be a good understanding of agriculture and the workings of the federal land grant college system, where much of the publicly supported research is done, said Lee Van Wychen, science policy director for the Weed Science Society of America.

Legislation in 1998, advanced by Bryan and Nevada's other senator, Harry Reid, and then - congressman John Ensign, allowed the U.S. Department of the Interior to sell tens of thousands of acres of federal land to private developers, enabling Las Vegas Valley authorities to steer federal land sales they otherwise would not have the right to control.

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 River.

The Interior Department, which regulates drilling on federal lands, has said it will issue rules covering fracking within the month.

The case arose as an outgrowth of the Northwest Forest Plan, a 1994 deal that allows logging on federal lands but reduces some of the industry's destructive practices.

Federal policy requires FWS to consult state agencies and comply with their permitting processes when releasing endangered animals from captivity, even when releases are made on federal land.

Earlier this week, the New Mexico Game Commission upheld an earlier decision denying the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) permits to release Mexican wolves onto federal land in southwestern New Mexico.

«But right now, you're working with an administration who in their own infrastructure bill says that they're going to pay for it by oil and gas on federal lands, all over federal lands.

Indeed, legal challenges to renewable energy projects have been a huge roadblock, particularly on federal land.