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Judge Pauses Biden Pause On Oil & Gas Leasing

June 19, 2021 admin federal public lands, Fossil Fuels, gas leasing, Joe Biden, natural gas, Oil, oil drilling, oil leasing, policy & politics, policy research, public lands, public lands & waters, research

Credit to Author: Nexus Media| Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2021 22:03:08 +0000

A federal judge on Tuesday effectively paused the Biden administration’s pause on new oil and gas leasing on public lands and waters. The preliminary injunction applies nationwide and is a blow to a high-profile component of Biden’s sweeping executive actions on climate change, taken soon after assuming office. The administration said it would comply with the […]

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Biden: Be Monumental for Public Lands & Ocean Conservation

June 11, 2021 admin antiquities act, bears ears, bears ears intertribal coalition, Biodiversity, deb haaland, Department of Interior, Donald Trump, grand staircase-escalante national monuments., Joe Biden, New England, northeast canyons and seamounts marine national monument, ocean conservation, policy & politics, policy research, public lands, research, us department of interior, us interior department, Utah, Water

Credit to Author: NRDC| Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2021 18:25:41 +0000

Originally published on the NRDC Expert Blog. By Valerie Cleland & Kabir Green On his first day in office, President Biden signaled his commitment to our public lands and waters when he issued an executive order directing the Interior Department to review President Trump’s illegal rollbacks of three national monuments: Bears Ears, Northeast Canyons and Seamounts, and Grand […]

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President Biden’s Budget Invests $2.8 Billion To Support Economies, Outdoor Recreation, & Access To Public Lands

June 6, 2021 admin Agriculture, climate change, deb haaland, departments of the interior and agriculture, Joe Biden, land and water conservation fund project list, national parks, national parks and public land legacy restoration fund project list, policy & politics, public land legacy restoration fund (lrf), public lands, tom vilsack

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2021 20:52:46 +0000

Projects expected to create tens of thousands of jobs across the United States

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Siting Renewable Energy Responsibly on Public Lands

June 1, 2021 admin Agriculture, clean power, federal public lands, geothermal, mike levin, policy & politics, policy research, public land renewable energy development act of 2021, public lands, renewable energy resource conservation fund, research, Solar energy, wind energy

Credit to Author: NRDC| Date: Fri, 28 May 2021 21:10:44 +0000

Originally published on the NRDC Expert Blog. By Joshua Axelrod Following passage of an ambitious 25-gigawatt renewable energy siting goal in December 2020, Congress is considering legislation that will help that goal be met responsibly, with as little environmental harm as possible. Representative Mike Levin (D-CA) has reintroduced the Public Land Renewable Energy Development Act of 2021 (PLREDA) at a critical […]

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Consequential President Biden Actions Nobody Is Talking About

January 27, 2021 admin clean air, clean power, clean transport, clean water, climate change, consumer technology, council on environmental quality, Electric vehicles, EPA, Fossil Fuels, Joe Biden, national environmental policy act (nepa), office of information and regulatory affairs (oira), Office of Management and Budget, policy & politics, policy research, public lands, research, SCIENCE, social cost of carbon, social cost of greenhouse gas emissions, social cost of methane, social cost of nitrous oxide, union of concerned scientists

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2021 04:53:53 +0000

The first 24 hours of the administration of President Joe Biden were filled not only with ceremony, but also with real action

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Happy Birthday To The Arctic Refuge

December 9, 2020 admin alaska, alaska national interest lands conservation act (anilca), arctic national wildlife refuge, arctic refuge, Bill Clinton, bureau of land management (blm), climate change, Donald Trump, Fossil Fuels, gwich’in, inupiat, natural gas, nrdc, Obama, Oil, policy & politics, public land, public land order 2214, public lands, secretary of the interior, Water

Credit to Author: NRDC| Date: Sun, 06 Dec 2020 21:00:31 +0000

Just this week, the Trump administration set a date to auction off the heart of these lands. This will not stand

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Oil & Gas Leasing Is Off The Rails

October 15, 2020 admin bureau of land management, catherine cortez masto, climate change, COLORADO, Donald Trump, Fossil Fuels, jon tester, market research, michael bennet, natural gas, NEW MEXICO, Oil, oil drilling, policy & politics, policy research, public lands, Republicans, research, SCIENCE, u.s. government accountability office (gao), Utah, Wyoming

Credit to Author: NRDC| Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2020 19:08:29 +0000

Since the COVID-19 pandemic began in early 2020, the Bureau of Land Management has held 13 lease sales for drillers looking to lock up cheap oil and gas rights at the expense of U.S. taxpayers, clean air, clean water, vital wildlife habitat, and pristine wildlands

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Judge Kicks William Pendley Out Of Illegal Role As Trump’s Bureau Of Land Management Acting Director

October 4, 2020 admin Agriculture, air quality, bureau of land management (blm), david bernhardt, Department of Interior, Donald Trump, drilling on public lands, Fossil Fuels, policy & politics, policy research, public lands, research, us department of interior, Water, william pendley

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2020 22:03:37 +0000

It has been an absolute rollercoaster of a week for anyone who cares about our public lands. It all started last Friday when a federal judge ruled that the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) beleaguered acting director should be removed from his illegally held position