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The California Air Resources Board May 20 announced that seven of its members have been named to the Environmental Justice Advisory Committee, with Indian American Neena Mohan among them.
The natural gas storage report from the EIA for the week ending April 30th indicated that the amount of natural gas held in underground storage in the US rose by 60 billion cubic feet to 1,958 billion cubic feet by the end of the week, which left our gas supplies 345 billion cubic feet, or 15.0% below the 2,303 billion cubic feet that were in storage on April 30th of last year, and 61 billion cubic feet, or 3.0% below the five-year average of 2,019 billion cubic feet of natural gas that have been in storage as of the 30th of April in recent years....the 60 billion cubic feet that were added t...
Extension of Applications of Permit to Drill (APDs) Lease suspension Applications for royalty relief Notably, the March Memo specifically states that the above list is not exhaustive. And, to the extent approval is discretionary (i.e., extensions of APDs), we suspect an oil and gas lessee or operator will have difficultly receiving approval for those above-listed actions. Although the March Memo is not addressed to the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) serves as a technical advisor to the BIA and is required to approve certain actions that impact Indian triba...
House Science Subcommittee Issues Testimony From Foundation for Louisiana Climate Justice Program Director Russell Targeted News Service WASHINGTON, Liz Williams Russell, Climate Justice Program director at Foundation for Louisiana, as part of a video conference hearing entitled "Equity: the Case for a Federal Climate Service" on April 21, 2021: * * * Thank you for the opportunity to testify regarding the need for a strengthened Federal role in addressing climate change. I want to encourage thoughtful investment and provision of authority for coordinated risk information and climate servic...
A conference explores energy justice, and emerging issue in the transition to renewable energy sources. Participants in the conference “Energy Justice: Prioritizing Equity in the Greener Grid,” organized by the Center for Energy and Environmental Law at the UConn School of Law on April 16, 2021. The rapid acceleration of climate change will soon force states to collaborate to combat it, Katie Dykes, commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, told a large virtual audience at a UConn Law conference on April 16, 2021. “We can no longer just put on ou...