posts tagged as public lands

World Discovered Oil and Gas Resources Are at a Low Point; Trump’s Offshore Leasing Plan Could Help Fix That

Global discoveries of new conventional oil and natural gas in 2017 totaled only 7 billion barrels of oil equivalence—a level last seen in...

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Department of the Interior Announces Offshore Leasing Plan for 2019-2024

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke announced a draft five-year leasing plan[i] for 2019 to 2024 last week that would commit over 90 percent...

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Obama’s Last Minute Land Grab

On December 28, 2016, President Barack Obama designated over 1.5 million acres for two new national monuments — Bears Ears in Utah...

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IER Statement on Obama’s Latest National Monument Designations

WASHINGTON – The Institute for Energy Research (IER) opposes today’s decision by President Obama to block off 1.65 million acres of land...

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Obama Intensifies Attacks on Coal Country

It is apparently not enough for Barack Obama to shutter coal-fired power plants throughout the nation due to EPA’s so-called Clean Power...

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IER blasts Interior Department for transparency failures

For Immediate Release February 7, 2012 WASHINGTON D.C. -- Citing numerous examples of "embarrassing shortcomings" in data transparency at the Department of...

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