Court Says Interior Must Explain How GHGs Factor Into Oil & Gas Leasing

A federal district court is agreeing with environmentalists that the Interior Department (DOI) must explain how greenhouse gas impacts factor into its decisions about oil and gas leasing, even as the court is signaling that officials should receive a high degree of deference in their reasoning. Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) “did not adequately explain how it considered the environmental effects of GHG emissions that, in its own telling, carry a hefty price tag in terms of social costs,”...