We have posted previously on the potential for carbon sequestration in the US. Our post earlier this month covered a Department of Energy report on carbon capture and storage potential in the US, identifying 5,700 years of potential storage of CO2 emitted by stationary sources. Yesterday, the Bureau of Labor Management issued guidance on proposals [...]
Archive for the ‘BLM’ Category
18 Apr
BLM’s Fresh Look at Oil Shale and Tar Sands
Late last week, the DOI’s Bureau of Land Management published a notice in the Federal Register expressing their intent to prepare a Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for “Allocation of Oil Shale and Tar Sands Resources on Lands Administered by the BLM in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming.” This new planning initiative takes a fresh look [...]
9 Mar
The Oil and Gas Lease Rule That May Put Tim DeChristopher Behind Bars
In 1987, Congress passed the Federal Onshore Oil and Gas Leasing Reform Act, which established a competitive bidding process for oil and gas leases on public lands. The Act dictated procedures for both conducting auctions, as well as requirements for those engaged in the bidding process. But I can almost guarantee that those who penned [...]
25 Feb
Wild Horses Can’t Be Broken: BLM’s Proposed Reforms to Wild Horse and Burro Management
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) yesterday announced the acceleration of proposed changes to the management of wild horses and burros on public lands. BLM estimates that more than 30,000 wild horses and burros currently roam on BLM managed rangelands across the U.S. But it wasn’t always this way. In the 1971, the Wild Free-Roaming Horses [...]
13 Jan
BLM Reclaims Wilderness and Wild Lands
Late last month, the Department of Interior announced the publication of a secretarial order directing the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to “protect wilderness characteristics through land use planning and project-level decisions.” As innocuous (and perhaps, obvious) as it seems, the policy introduced in Secretarial Order 3310 comprises the first “comprehensive national wilderness policy since [...]
