The oil and natural gas industry has undergone significant technological transformation, and wildlife is truly gaining ground. Western Energy Alliance and the Petroleum Association of Wyoming (PAW) have just released a report, Gaining Ground: Industry Innovation Reduces Impacts on...
The Keep-It-in-the-Ground’s global Break Free 2016 campaign came to Colorado last week and was disruptive as promised. Two protests around Denver coincided with other demonstrations in California, New York, Washington, Europe, South America and Australia. Colorado was... 
It appears the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) doesn’t believe what’s good for the goose is good for the gander.Last week FWS announced an expansion of its take rule that allows wind energy companies to kill or injure up to 4,200 bald eagles each year, and also to kill or injure...
BLM’s proposed venting and flaring rule is the administration’s latest regulation targeting oil and natural gas production. BLM’s proposal suffers from wide-ranging problems including jurisdictional overreach into air quality, technologically infeasible requirements, and implementation costs...
In a hearing before the Senate Energy and Natural Resource Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests and Mining on the Bureau of Land Management’s venting and flaring rule, Senator Al Franken felt compelled to use his five minutes of allotted time for questions...
Today, I had the privilege of testifying before Senate committee Energy and Natural Resource Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests and Mining in a hearing on the flawed venting and flaring rule proposed by the Bureau of Land Management.As noted before, the...
Computer models are powerful tools, but as the old saying goes, “garbage in, garbage out” and models of the Social Cost of Methane (SCM) are no exceptions. The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) new methane rules rely heavily on the SCM to show a benefit. Now, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is... 
The Keep-It-in-the-Ground movement was created after Keystone XL protesters won that battle and needed something else to occupy their time. Many have turned their attention to protesting quarterly Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lease sales, and they’re revved up for... 
Yesterday, BLM held a hearing on its proposed venting and flaring rule. Western Energy Alliance delivered comments at the hearing, along with 91 others. Industry speakers were outnumbered roughly nine to one, but what we lacked in quantity, we made up in quality.Western Energy Alliance emphasized that...
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is in the midst of holding outreach meetings for the public to weigh in on its recently proposed venting andDesigned to address flaring and methane emissions from oil and natural gas production on public...
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