March2016
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Climate Change and the Future of Oil/Gas Leasing Offshore
The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has braved rough seas since its creation in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon disaster. The immediate past commitment to develop the plays off the coast of Alaska...March 29, 2016 370 0 -
A New Study Says Climate Change Gets Varied Treatment in Impact Statements
Just across our inbox recently: this new study from Columbia Law School’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law. The study by Wentz and colleagues surveyed federal environmental impact statements (EISs) from 2012-2014 and found that the...March 21, 2016 273 0 -
A Standing Dilemma: For the Want of a Plaintiff, a NEPA Challenge Was Lost
According to Judge Bates of the U.S. District Court for D.C., National Wildlife Fed’n v. U.S. Army Corps of Eng’rs., 2016 WL 1048767 (D.D.C. 2016), the National Wildlife Federation’s NEPA challenge to a Corps of Engineers’...March 20, 2016 351 0 -
Former CEQ Chair Connaughton Takes the Helm of Nautilus
Nautilus Data Technologies, a firm specializing in data storage under water (where the cooling is free (for now!)) just announced their new CEO: the former head of the Council on Environmental Quality (2001-09), James L. Connaughton. Nautilus’s...March 16, 2016 349 0 -
An Undeclared War on Wolves? Wildlife Services’ NEPA Debts Coming Due
Wildlife Services (WS)—the current name for a bureau within the Department of Agriculture (USDA)—annually kills between 1 and 5 million animals, all in the name of “wildlife control.” It has done so in one form or...March 4, 2016 458 0
