Heather covers offshore energy — oil, natural gas and wind — and drilling on public lands for E&E. She previously covered energy and the environment for The Casper Star-Tribune in Wyoming.
California Democratic Rep. Alan Lowenthal introduced legislation yesterday that would force energy companies to keep detailed accounting of the emissions from infrastructure and wells on public lands, and to disclose those figures to the public.
A memo signed this week is evidence to some that Trump's Bureau of Land Management and its new home state of Colorado are likely to be at odds on oil and gas policy.
Last August, the Forest Service published two versions of a notice opening up a review of oil and gas drilling in Texas national forests and grasslands. The first contained references to climate change. The second didn't. Now, an environmental group is accusing the agency of censorship.
The largest offshore wind developers in the world announced a global coalition yesterday to foster ocean-based renewable power as a means to combat climate change.
The Trump administration's proposed overhaul of National Environmental Policy Act rules could undermine a winning strategy for green groups trying to slow oil and gas drilling on public lands.