Sentences with phrase «on federal leases»

economic and appraisal reports in Wyoming typically contained generic boilerplate statements about the possibility of coal exports in the future and the uncertainty surrounding them, rather than specific information on actual or predicted coal exports ---- even for proposed lease tracts that were adjacent to mines on federal leases that are currently exporting coal.

JOC.com New York state plans a potentially «game - changing» bid on a federal lease to develop an Atlantic Ocean wind farm that could generate sizeable demand for heavy - lift and other project shipments.

Not exact matches

While the Obama administration put commercial leasing on hold, then, elsewhere in the federal government people have been feverishly researching ways to facilitate the development of America's oilsands and oil shale.

The General Services Administration, which manages property owned by the federal government, including the Old Post Office housing the Trump International Hotel, has said the lease would violate federal conflict - of - interest rules once the Republican businessman is sworn in on Jan. 20, according to a letter to the agency from lawmakers.

Sediment resources on the OCS are leased to local communities or federal agencies to help them restore shorelines or wetlands in an effort to address chronic erosion, sea level rise, impacts from major storms, or to protect valuable infrastructure and habitat.

One of those items was a five - year lease plan from the Department of Interior, for the years 2017 through 2022, which includes territories the federal government plans on auctioning off for oil and gas drilling on the outer continental shelf.

Also at 10:30 a.m., the state Assembly will hold a public hearing to examine the impact of the proposed federal offshore natural gas and oil lease authorization on the state's environment, Legislative Auditorium, William H. Rogers Building, 725 Veterans Memorial Highway, Smithtown, Long Island.

Release of the master plan comes as the federal government, even as it forges ahead on offshore wind leases, also has released plans to open nearly the entire U.S. coastline to oil and gas drilling.

Banire, who said the news came to him in Saudi Arabia, where he is on lesser hajj, added that the building, located at 24A, Remi Fani Kayode Street, GRA, Ikeja, Lagos, was leased to him by the Federal Government and that he never carried out any structural work on it.

A campaign donor to de Blasio secretly pleaded guilty in federal court to trying to bribe the mayor to win favorable lease terms for a restaurant he owned on city property, newly unsealed court records show.

Buoyed by Cuomo's renewable energy plan and the extension of federal tax credits, solar companies are blanketing rural areas with mailings seeking leases on farmland for solar arrays spanning 20 acres or more.

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy is asking the federal government to extend the public comment period on proposed new lease sales for offshore wind in the New York Bight, a step that could delay the process for up to six months.

A campaign donor to Mayor Bill de Blasio secretly pleaded guilty in federal court to bribery, admitting that he used his contributions to the mayor to try to win favorable lease terms for a restaurant he owned on city property, newly unsealed court records show.

To help close a city budget gap, the Department of Correction has proposed to lease several hundred vacant beds on Rikers Island to local, state and federal law enforcement agencies.

Speaking on behalf of Co-ordinators in Uyo Federal Constituency, Prince Uwem Ita Etuk thanked the party leadership for the initiative of involving all stakeholders in the political process and commended Governor Udom Emmanuel for giving a new lease of life to the party in the state and promised to work for the success of the party.

«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.

Two decades - old pieces of legislation — the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920 and the Mineral Leasing Act for Acquired Lands of 1947 — give the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management responsibility for minerals leasing on more than 550 million acres of federally owned public lands, as well as state and private lands where mineral rights have been acquired by the federal government.

, who called on the Government Accountability Office to look into the federal coal leasing program in 2012, said, «Leading on climate change means leading by example in how we manage the oil, gas and coal resources that belong to the American people.»

Congress questions the federal leasing programs Yesterday, Democratic Reps. Alan Lowenthal of California and Raúl Grijalva of Arizona introduced legislation that would raise the rate oil and gas companies pay for leasing public lands to «ensure that the American people are being fairly compensated for the extraction of resources on public lands.»

Reading between the lines, some see the president's statement as a signal that the administration will try to push through reforms to federal leasing programs for oil, gas and coal on public lands.

Meanwhile, Trump has also said he would end the moratorium on new federal coal leases, revive the Keystone XL pipeline, and take other actions to promote energy development — all actions that would impact public lands.

What's next for offshore wind developers partly depends on any changes the Trump administration makes to the federal government's policy on leasing and permitting for wind farms, said Fara Courtney, an independent offshore wind consultant and founder of the U.S. Offshore Wind Collaborative.

Earlier this year, the Obama administration placed a three - year moratorium on federal coal leasing, and closed the entire East Coast and parts of the Arctic Ocean to offshore oil drilling.

He'll have plenty of support: Interior Secretary nominee Ryan Zinke, who would oversee the federal coal leasing program, has a long history of support for coal mining on public lands.

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.

The U.S. temporarily halts coal leasing on federal lands to reassess its policy in light of global warming

The Obama administration did indeed place a federal moratorium on all new coal mining leases on public lands across the country in June — but but only out of concern from environmentalists, Congress, and the Department of the Interior that coal companies have spent 30 years cheating taxpayers out of $ 30 billion in royalties.

Facility Planning Navigating the Zoning; Land Use and Permitting Process; Acquiring Facilities; Facility Master Planning; District Facility Options; Prop 39, Alternative Agreements and Surplus Property; SB 740; Charter School Facilities Financing; Hiring and Working with Brokers and Other Real Estate Professionals; Negotiating Leases; State and Federal Facilities Programs; Charters and School Districts Working Together on Local School Bond Programs

In Missouri, a federal judge ordered Imagine Schools to pay $ 1 million for «forcing a lucrative lease agreement on a school it operated.»

In addition to the activities described above, the FAST Act expanded eligible purposes to include financing economic development, including commercial and residential development, and related infrastructure and activities, that (i) incorporate private investment, (ii) is physically or functionally related to a passenger rail station or multimodal station that includes rail service, (iii) has a high probability of the applicant commencing the contracting process for construction not later than 90 days after the date on which the RRIF loan or loan guarantee is obligated, and (iv) has a high probability of reducing the need for financial assistance under any other Federal program for the relevant passenger rail station or service by increasing ridership, tenant lease payments, or other activities that generate revenue exceeding costs (Transit - Oriented Development Projects or TOD Projects).

The $ 249 per month lease Kia refers to is for the base model, on a 36 months agreement with $ 1,999 due at signing after the $ 7,500 Federal Tax Credit has been applied to reduce cost of lease.

In order to drill in offshore federal waters, companies bid on leases that grant them the rights to oil and gas production.

Democrats, meanwhile, insist that drilling should be limited to existing leases on federal lands.

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).

Tim DeChristopher, who served time in federal prison for obstructing auctions of energy leases on federal lands and is now enrolled at Harvard Divinity School, posted a reasoned rebuttal via Wen Stephenson's blog at The Nation.

The problem with this concept is that even if oil and gas prices are likely to increase in the future, thus increasing federal revenues from oil and gas leases on public lands, any such revenue coming from areas already open to production will be considered by CBO as already included in the baseline revenue picture.

A federal appeals court in Denver told the Bureau of Land Management on Friday that its analysis of the climate impacts of four gigantic coal leases was economically «irrational» and needs to be done over.

She began working with Greenpeace in 2008 on federal climate legislation and has since worked on reforming federal fossil fuel leasing programs and fighting new infrastructure projects around the United States.

Other programs that provide economic support for coal include federal and state tax breaks, the Rural Utilities Service loan guarantee program, research on new combustion technologies by the Department of Energy, and the Department of the Interior's coal leasing program.

The government has suspended new coal leases on federal land.

A moratorium on federal coal leasing effectively hands a pink slip to the thousands of people in Wyoming and across the West employed in coal production.»

After years of hearing from you, the Interior Department will begin a massive overhaul of the federal coal program, including a halt on most new federal coal leasing.

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.

This includes announcing a withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, repealing the Clean Power Plan, rolling back vehicle fuel economy standards, attempting to rescind rules on methane emissions from oil and gas production on federal lands, ending the moratorium on coal leasing on federal lands, and opening additional offshore areas to oil and gas leasing.

That means the initial projects on 14 offshore federal leases will be more expensive to build and produce costlier power — whether European equipment is used or its manufacture in America is developed.

The downside is that some home shoppers are shy about purchasing a home with a leased solar system on it and the homeowner is not entitled to the federal tax credits associated with the solar system.

Today's announcement builds on BOEM's work to foster offshore renewable energy development through a collaborative state - federal process to identify Wind Energy Areas and hold competitive lease sales.

«BLM's federal coal leasing program has a massive impact on our climate and public health, affecting the waters we use, the air we breathe, and the wild areas we enjoy,» said Roger Singer, Senior Organizing Manager with the Sierra Club in Colorado.

Currently, many large solar plants in the United States have been built on — or are proposed to be built on — federal lands, so brokers have to work with the Bureau of Land Management to obtain leases for these properties.

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), the federal regulator that oversees offshore wind development, announced plans to publish two major documents that close in on eventual offshore wind leasing.