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PUBLIC LANDS

Western Energy Alliance believes in the principle of multiple use of non-park, non-wilderness public lands. Our public lands advocacy over many years has consistently stressed the importance of a balance on federal lands among productive uses of public lands like oil, natural gas, timber and mining with recreation, wildlife protection, and conservation.
 
Fortunately, oil and natural gas development offers a solution for balancing productive uses of public lands with conservation. Oil and natural gas already provides 100% of the funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund, which supports conservation on public lands, but more can be done to support our national parks. The Alliance strongly supports the Restore Our Parks bill, which would direct over $1 billion every year from revenues generated by the industry on public lands into national park maintenance and repair.
 
As the trade association that represents a region where a majority of the lands are federal, we’re the recognized leader in the industry for public lands issues. Western Energy Alliance actively engages in the land use planning process for all major producing basins. Land use planning is a multi-year process that local, state and federal officials, the public, industries, conservation groups, and other stakeholders engage in to help determine which lands are open to oil and natural gas development and other productive uses, and which lands are set aside for conservation. Finalized plans guide the agencies as they hold lease sales and grant permits for oil and natural gas activities.

We’re also actively engaged in court defending federal leasing on appropriately designated public lands. We’re currently involved in five different lawsuits supporting federal leasing. We’re also engaged in court over federal regulation of hydraulic fracturing and methane emissions on public lands.

Related Content

- Myth v. Reality: Federal Onshore Oil and Natural Gas Leasing
- BLM Planning and NEPA
- Federal Land Policy and Management Act
- Multiple Use Sustained Yield Act of 1960

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Below are comments submitted by the Alliance on Resource Management Plans (RMP), National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), and other Interior Department and Forest Service rules and issues:​ 
2/6/23 - Scoping Comments on MT-Dakotas June 2023 BLM Lease Sale
File Size: 166 kb
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2/6/23 - Comments on NM May 2023 Lease Sale EA
File Size: 178 kb
File Type: pdf
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1/23/23 - Comments on WY Q2 2023 Lease Sale EA
File Size: 391 kb
File Type: pdf
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1/19/23 - Scoping Comments on WY Q3 2023 BLM Lease Sale
File Size: 188 kb
File Type: pdf
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1/16/23 - BLM Thompson Divide Proposed Withdrawal
File Size: 893 kb
File Type: pdf
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12/23/22 - Comments on BLM Greenhouse Gas Emissions Supplemental EA
File Size: 290 kb
File Type: pdf
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12/21/22- Scoping Comments on UT Q3 2023 BLM Lease Sale
File Size: 165 kb
File Type: pdf
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12/21/22 - Scoping Comments on NV Q3 2023 BLM Lease Sale
File Size: 167 kb
File Type: pdf
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12/9/22 - Chaco Canyon NHP Withdrawal Environmental Assesment.pdf
File Size: 398 kb
File Type: pdf
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11/7/22 - Scoping Comments on Wyoming Q2 2023 BLM Lease Sale
File Size: 205 kb
File Type: pdf
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11/7/22 - Scoping Comments on New Mexico May 2023 BLM Lease Sale
File Size: 180 kb
File Type: pdf
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5/18/22 - Protest of the BLM Wyoming June 2022 Lease Sale EA
File Size: 371 kb
File Type: pdf
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5/5/22 - Chaco Culture NHP Area Withdrawal
File Size: 3615 kb
File Type: pdf
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3/7/22 - America the Beautiful Conservation Atlas
File Size: 310 kb
File Type: pdf
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12/10/21 - BLM Lease Sale Draft Environmental Assessment - Wyoming
File Size: 389 kb
File Type: pdf
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12/10/21 - BLM Lease Sale Draft Environmental Assessment - New Mexico
File Size: 380 kb
File Type: pdf
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12/10/21 - BLM Lease Sale Draft Environmental Assessment - Utah
File Size: 383 kb
File Type: pdf
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12/10/21 - BLM Lease Sale Draft Environmental Assessment - Colorado
File Size: 383 kb
File Type: pdf
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12/10/21 - BLM Lease Sale Draft Environmental Assessment - Montana and Dakotas
File Size: 379 kb
File Type: pdf
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12/10/21 - BLM Lease Sale Draft Environmental Assessment - Nevada
File Size: 383 kb
File Type: pdf
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09/01/21 - Joint Trades Letter to the House Natural Resources Committee on Impacts of Reconciliation Revenue Raisers_090121.pdf
File Size: 250 kb
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8/10/2020 - Withdrawal of the Office of Natural Resources Revenue Valuation Reform and Civil Penalty Rule with PAW and UPA
File Size: 743 kb
File Type: pdf
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4/14/2021 - Department of the Interior Review of the Federal Oil and Natural Gas Program
File Size: 622 kb
File Type: pdf
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11/30/2020 - Office of Natural Resources Revenue Valuation Reform and Civil Penalty Rule
File Size: 388 kb
File Type: pdf
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11/2/2020 - U.S. Forest Service Oil and Gas Resources
File Size: 319 kb
File Type: pdf
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9/25/2020 - Farmington Draft RMP Amendment
File Size: 349 kb
File Type: pdf
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8/28/2020 - North Dakota RMP Scoping with NDPC and DEPA
File Size: 437 kb
File Type: pdf
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3/10/2020 - Council on Environmental Quality Draft NEPA Regulations
File Size: 466 kb
File Type: pdf
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8/26/2019 - Council on Environmental Quality Draft NEPA Guidance
File Size: 392 kb
File Type: pdf
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8/26/2019 - USFS National Environmental Policy Act Regulations
File Size: 201 kb
File Type: pdf
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6/10/2019 - Bakersfield Draft SEIS for Hydraulic Fracturing
File Size: 363 kb
File Type: pdf
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9/20/2019 - Eastern Colorado Draft RMP
File Size: 377 kb
File Type: pdf
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