Report on the Federal Oil and Gas Leasing Program

Excerpt:  “This report responds to Executive Order 14008, Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad, which directed the Department of the Interior (DOI) to conduct a review of Federal oil and gas leasing and permitting practices. This report considers both onshore and offshore oil and gas leasing programs in light of the Secretary of the Interior’s broad stewardship responsibilities over public lands and Federal offshore waters. … This review and outreach reconfirmed well-documented and long reported deficiencies in the Federal oil and gas program that support this report’s findings and recommendations related to fiscal terms and bonding. This report identifies a number of recommendations that begin to modernize Federal land management.” (footnote omitted)