The Bureau of Land Management is developing comprehensive guidance on
calculating the climate change impacts of mining oil, gas and coal from
public lands, according to an internal memo obtained by Greenwire. The memo,
sent this month by Ed Roberson, BLM's assistant director of resources
and planning, says the rapid warming of the planet is primarily caused
by humans and that BLM should acknowledge this as it weighs the
trade-offs of extracting more carbon-intensive minerals from the earth.
"Anthropogenic climate change is a reality," Roberson wrote in an
email to BLM senior managers across the country. "Please ensure that all
discussions of climate change in BLM's [National Environmental Policy
Act] documents are consistent with this conclusion." Roberson's name does not appear in the document, but the agency
confirmed he was the author and that it was sent earlier this month. The memo says BLM will be issuing "a comprehensive instruction
memorandum" addressing climate change and the social cost of carbon in
the next few months. While the impact of that guidance remains unclear, environmentalists
said Roberson's memo is a sign that the agency intends to take better
stock of how its land management decisions affect the climate...more
Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
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