District Court Faults GHG Analysis In BOEM Oil & Gas Drilling NEPA Review

March 28, 2025
Amid shifting policies for implementing National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) reviews, a district court is agreeing with environmentalists that Interior officials failed to properly weigh recent climate laws’ effects when evaluating the greenhouse gas emissions of an offshore oil and gas lease sale required by one of those laws. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) “failed to take a ‘hard look’ at Lease Sale 259’s greenhouse gas emissions because it did not adequately examine laws and policies postdating the...

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