New EPA Numbers Highlight Ongoing Costs of Natural Gas Waste
Data released yesterday by the EPA indicate that state regulations are working to decrease methane emissions from oil and gas production, but federal taxpayers will continue to lose out until the...
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Western Energy Alliance, Is This Good for Business? It’s Time to End Natural...
It’s time to stop the waste that comes from venting and flaring natural gas on public lands. Western stakeholders are calling for it; western budgets need it; and some oil and gas companies are...
View ArticleDiverse stakeholders express continued support for BLM in ending natural gas...
Momentum for limits to natural gas waste has been building. Westerners ranging from sportsmen, to oil and gas global industry heads, to retired land managers and tribal tribal leaders, have all been...
View ArticleWhile Debt Ceiling Looms, Lawmakers Brainstorm Other Ways to Bankrupt States
This afternoon, Utah Congressman Rob Bishop’s Congressional “Federal Land Action Group” (FLAG), is holding a forum to discuss options for transferring federal lands back to state control. What the...
View ArticleSage Grouse Agreement Sets the Standard for 21st Century Conservation
Compromise and cooperation aren’t words you hear often in Washington these days, but you’re hearing them more and more out West where a landmark agreement to protect the Greater sage-grouse is setting...
View ArticleWesterners want a balanced approach to energy development, but industry polls...
Industry lobbyists are touting a new poll that obscures the reality of Westerners’ attitudes about energy development. What they miss is that while many Americans, including folks in the West, support...
View ArticleUpcoming BLM waste rule is good for business, good for New Mexico
A recent opinion in this newspaper about the problem of natural gas waste bore a greater resemblance to the oil and gas lobby’s talking points than to the serious look New Mexicans deserve into this...
View ArticleAct now: Tell Rep. Rob Bishop it’s time to permanently reauthorize LWCF
Tell Rep. Rob Bishop it’s time to fully fund and permanently authorize America’s best parks program. Western Values Project recently released new television advertisements and a print advertisement...
View ArticleWyoming state waste rules are a start, but taxpayers deserve more
In case you missed it: Last week, the state of Wyoming released draft rules to regulate venting and flaring by the oil and gas industry. Companies often either burn off or release excess natural gas...
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Time for Rep. Bishop to listen to a majority of Americans—it’s time to...
This morning, the House Natural Resources Committee is finally—after months of unnecessary delay from a single member—holding a hearing on the now-expired Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF)....
View ArticleRep. Bishop wants to take from communities, give to oil companies with new...
Yesterday, the House Natural Resources Committee held a hearing on Utah Representative Rob Bishop’s “discussion draft” for the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF, or the Fund). In the past, at...
View ArticleICYMI: Two Bipartisan op-eds show strong across-the-aisle support for...
Two opinion pieces published yesterday in national newspapers from members of both parties underscore the bipartisan importance of the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF). The first, from...
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ConocoPhillips is wrong: Natural gas waste costs communities, not big oil
Last month, ConocoPhillips made a presentation to the New Mexico Indian Affairs Committee arguing that taking action to limit the wasteful practice of venting or flaring excess natural gas “would come...
View ArticleTime is Running Out for America’s Best Conservation Fund, But These...
As the clock ticks towards the end of 2015, Congress has less and less time to reauthorize the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF)—an end-of-the-year must-do to save America’s best parks program...
View ArticleMajority in Congress wants to “ensure certainty” for the coal industry by...
Tomorrow, we’ll hear from the majority on the House Natural Resources Committee majority about coal production and valuation in the West’s Powder River Basin region. What you’re not likely to hear, on...
View ArticleAs expected, House Natural Resources Committee left American taxpayers out to...
In yesterday’s hearing, some on the House Natural Resources Committee defended the government’s broken system for overseeing coal production, valuation, and royalties—even when that system means...
View ArticleRep. Zinke’s coal giveaway is wrong for taxpayers
House member Rep. Zinke (MT) is taking a last-minute gamble: he’s attempting to undermine the Department of the Interior’s proposal to modernize oil, gas and coal royalties by blocking any money for...
View ArticleLike Giving Late Homework an A++: Suspended Leases are Costing Taxpayers...
A new report released today finds that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has been turning a blind eye to delinquent leaseholders—costing taxpayers tens of millions of dollars in the process. The...
View ArticleFact-check: Rep. Bishop’s unfounded accusations about BLM’s oil and gas...
Today, it broke that House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Rob Bishop is circulating a letter to the Department of Interior that makes some unfounded accusations about the Bureau of Land...
View ArticleArmed extremists’ calls for local control in Oregon echo moves in Congress to...
Over the weekend, a number of armed protesters—led by controversial rancher Cliven Bundy’s son Ammon—took over Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in southeast Oregon in protest of the imprisonment of...
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