Advocates Target Offshore Drilling In New Bid To Weigh Downstream GHGs

Environmentalists are urging the Interior Department's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) to consider the downstream greenhouse gas emissions that occur when oil and gas developed under its pending five-year offshore drilling program is burned for fuel, underscoring increasing pressure on agencies to consider such climate impacts. “We believe that the Proposed Program is precisely the sort of federal action that calls for a comprehensive and accurate evaluation of both direct and indirect GHG emissions,” the Sabin Center for Climate...