A group of nine environmental organizations sent a letter to the Department of Energy secretary requesting the initiation of a multi-agency environmental impact statement looking at Enchant Energy’s proposal to retrofit the San Juan Generating Station with carbon capture technology. If an EIS is required, it would delay the project substantially, but the environmental advocates […]
If enacted, the bill would provide federal relief funds to states, counties and tribes based on a baseline revenue level determined by past annual averages.
Conservation groups are suing federal agencies to challenge their approval last year of a proposal by Gunnison Energy to drill 35 oil and gas wells across some 35,000 acres of the upper North Fork Valley.
The groups say the Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service violated federal laws by failing to properly assess the climate impacts of the project or analyze alternatives that would have minimized environmental impacts.
The suit was brought by the Western Environmental Law Center, on behalf of the Center for Biological Diversity, the Carbondale-based Wilderness Workshop, WildEarth Guardians, Citizens for a Healthy Community in Paonia and High Country Conservation Advocates in Crested Butte.
If adopted, the new proposed rules would reduce ozone-causing chemical emissions in New Mexico and have the knock-on effect of reducing methane emissions in the state’s two oil and gas producing regions. In particular, this proposal eliminates an explicit exemption for nearly 30,000 stripper wells across the state. These low-production wells produce comparatively small amounts of oil and gas but can still pollute and leak as much as more productive wells.
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“The exemption went from almost everybody to almost nobody,” says Tom Singer, senior policy advisor at the Western Environmental Law Center (WELC). “And we like hearing that.”
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