{"id":367760,"date":"2025-02-26T11:21:39","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T10:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=367760"},"modified":"2025-02-26T11:21:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T10:21:41","slug":"the-gulf-of-america-is-now-officially-open-for-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=367760","title":{"rendered":"The Gulf of America is now officially open for business!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guest \u201cAnd just like that, it\u2019s the Gulf of America\u201d by David Middleton<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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Bureau of Ocean Energy Management<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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BOEM\u2019s Gulf of America OCS Region<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Our mission<\/strong>: To manage development of U.S. Outer Continental Shelf energy, mineral, and geological resources in an environmentally and economically responsible way.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Gulf of America Region (GOAR) manages three programs on the Gulf of America Outer Continental Shelf (OCS): oil and gas, renewable energy and marine minerals. The GOAR manages offshore resources in Federal waters off the coasts of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. Nearly three-fourths of the Gulf of America employees are scientists including geologists, geophysicists, petroleum engineers, physical scientists, biologists, environmental protection specialists, and environmental scientists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is the Gulf of America OCS?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA)<\/a> gives BOEM the authority to manage the OCS and the requirement to provide environmental oversight. The Gulf continues to be the nation\u2019s primary offshore source of oil and gas<\/strong>, generating about 97% of all U.S. OCS oil and gas production. OCS activities generate substantial revenues from lease sales, royalties on production, and rental fees. These funds are distributed to the U.S. Treasury and several different programs through various revenue sharing laws. The largest portion goes to the General Fund of the U.S. Treasury, which benefits all U.S. citizens through funding of daily operations of the federal government. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

BOEM held the first-ever offshore wind energy<\/strong> auction for the OCS Gulf of America region in 2023, resulting in one lease area receiving a high bid of $5.6 million. RWE Offshore US Gulf, LLC was the winner of the Lake Charles Lease Area, which has the potential to generate approximately 1.24 gigawatts of offshore wind energy capacity and power nearly 435,400 homes with clean, renewable energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Marine Minerals<\/strong> Program partners with communities to address serious erosion along the Nation\u2019s coastal beaches, dunes, barrier islands, and wetlands. Erosion affects natural resources, energy, defense, public infrastructure, and tourism. To help address this problem, the MMP leases sand, gravel and\/or shell resources from federal waters on the OCS for shore protection, beach nourishment, and wetlands restoration with vigorous safety and environmental oversight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management<\/a> (BOEM)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

More good news!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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BOEM Rescinds Expanded Rice\u2019s Whale Protection Efforts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Release Date 02\/20\/2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contact(s) Brian Walch<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Phone (202) 710-7994<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) today announced it is rescinding its Notice to Lessees and Operators (NTL) 2023-G01<\/a>, Expanded Rice\u2019s Whale Protection Efforts During Reinitiated Consultation with NMFS<\/em> [National Marine Fisheries Service]. The NTL contained recommendations for suggested precautionary measures by lessees and operators during the reinitiated consultation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The NTL is being rescinded in response to Secretary\u2019s Order 3418<\/a>, Unleashing American Energy<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Information on NTLs is available at BOEM\u2019s Guidance Portal: https:\/\/www.boem.gov\/about-boem\/regulations-guidance\/guidance-portal<\/a>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Department of the Interior\u2019s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) manages development of U.S. Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) energy, mineral, and geological resources in an environmentally and economically responsible way.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

BOEM<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The Biden administration attempted to illegally remove the \u201cRice\u2019s Whale Expanded Area\u201d (dark blue area on map below) from all future, lease sales.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Louisiana et al. vs Deb Haaland et al.<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Rice\u2019s whales are primarily located in the yellow and back outlined area in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico, an area off-limits to oil & gas exploration. Prior to 2021, Rice\u2019s whales<\/a> were thought to be a local subpopulation of the unendangered Bryde\u2019s whales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The US offshore oil & gas industry has now been \u201cun-Bidened by what\u201d has been\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Biden: I Wanted \u2018to Stop All Drilling\u2019 on the Coasts and Gulf, Got Blocked by Courts<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

by IAN HANCHETT<\/a> 8 Aug 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During an interview with The Weather Channel that is set to air on Wednesday, a portion of which aired on Tuesday, President Joe Biden said that he \u201cwanted to stop all drilling on the East Coast and the West Coast and in the Gulf\u201d but was blocked by the courts from doing so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[\u2026]Breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The court battles will continue. The Enviromarxist agitators are already forum and judge shopping to file more nuisance lawsuits in districts and before judges who have long track records of siding against industry and capitalism in general. However, unlike the past four years, the Federal government will be aggressively defending the law and we won\u2019t have to rely on the API<\/a>, NOIA<\/a>, Louisiana<\/a> and Chevron<\/a> to fight back. We can only hope that the Supreme Court will finally figure out that these NGO\u2019s do not have standing to sue anyone on behalf of the planet. The current Supreme Court might just be inclined to deny standing to the agitators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 The topic of this article is not a happy one. Until very recently, the Court\u2019s environmental rulings during the past five decades reflected the views of its consistently conservative majority, but were nonetheless tempered by moderate conservative Justices who, bounded by pragmatic concerns, were contextually open to account for the environmental protection exigencies present in particular cases. In the past few years, however, that dynamic has significantly shifted as the Court\u2019s majority has increasingly been captured by Justices whom I dub \u201cconstitutional alarmists\u201d \u2014 motivated in their votes and reasoning by their shared perception that environmental laws peculiarly threaten no less than the constitutional foundations of how law should be made and applied.<\/strong>

The purpose of this article is to describe this disturbing development while placing it in historical perspective. To that end, the article is divided into three parts. Part I highlights the central reason why environmental lawmaking is so challenging for our lawmaking institutions, including for the Supreme Court. As described in Part I, the making and application of environmental protection laws systematically present the Court with difficult questions regarding the Constitution\u2019s allocation of lawmaking authority both between branches and between levels of government and the Bill of Rights\u2019 imposition of limits on laws that interfere with personal liberty and private property. Part II considers how the Court generally resolved these legal issues over five decades from roughly October Term 1970, the dawning of modern environmental law in the United States, through the close of October Term 2019, immediately before President Trump added his third Justice to the Court. It describes how and why there was some modicum of balance in the Court\u2019s environmental rulings during those five decades, notwithstanding a persistent conservative majority. Finally, Part III considers the Court\u2019s environmental rulings since the fall of 2020, when the Court became dominated by six Justices who, alarmed by the threats they perceive environmental lawmaking to present to the Constitution\u2019s very foundation, are joining majority opinions that unravel environmental law\u2019s past successes and erode its future promise.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lazarus, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u201cConstitutional alarmists\u201d? Don\u2019t you just love it when smug leftists come up with phrases like \u201cbasket of deplorables<\/a>\u201d or \u201cthe only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters<\/a>\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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