DOI Agrees To Tighten O&G Lease Reporting To Bolster GHG Control Efforts

The Interior Department (DOI) and two of its agencies have agreed to advice from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to strengthen decades-old reporting policies in its onshore oil and gas leasing program as a way to help bolster control of greenhouse gases -- though DOI says some new guidance may not be issued until after it completes its pending rule controlling GHGs from drilling operations on federal lands at the end of the year. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell told GAO...