DAILY ON ENERGY: • The green case for Biden authority over lease sales • Estonian ambassador talks Russia pulling gas 'lever' • Russian oil profits unscathed despite war
THE GREEN CASE FOR BIDEN AUTHORITY OVER LEASE SALES: Environmental groups say that the Biden administration has the authority to stop holding new oil and gas lease sales on federal lands and are demanding that it follow through on President Joe Biden’s campaign promise to do so.
The administration orchestrated one offshore sale covering acreage in the Gulf of Mexico in November, citing compliance with the injunction, and the Bureau of Land Management just announced new onshore lease sales to be held this summer, saying again it is moving forward in compliance with the order.
“OCSLA mandates that you have a five-year plan in place if you're going to have a lease sale, but it doesn't say you have to have a five-year plan in place, it doesn't say you have to do it on a specific timeline,” Templeton said. “It just says, if there’s going to be a lease sale, you have to have a five-year plan that manages it.”
“We do think it's actually quite troubling that the administration would sort of say that they have a need to review their oil and gas program and still move forward with a really large sale in Wyoming,” Delehanty said. ESTONIAN AMBASSADOR TALKS RUSSIA PULLING GAS ‘LEVER’: It’s too early to tell what long-term effect Gazprom’s shut-offs of Poland and Bulgaria will have, but the move will certainly harden EU nations’ resolve to keep cutting Russia out of the picture, said Estonian ambassador to the U.S. Kristjan Prikk.
Estonia intends to stop using Russian gas altogether no later than this coming fall, a shorter timeline than the one to which the broader EU has committed, although doing so will be easier compared to some fellow EU members because it’s less reliant on Russian imports than others. Officials are also reportedly weighing whether to adopt a phased-in ban on Russian oil imports, which they could vote on as early as next week.
GOP-LED STATES ASK SUPREME COURT TO BLOCK KEY BIDEN CLIMATE METRIC: A group of Republican attorneys general asked the Supreme Court to block the Biden administration’s use of its “social cost of carbon” metric in regulatory decisions, after it was restored by an appellate court earlier this year. The metric is used by agencies to estimate the all-in effects of greenhouse gas emissions in economic terms.
Bonta said that the industry, including oil producers, “has engaged in an aggressive campaign to deceive the public, perpetuating a myth that recycling can solve the plastics crisis.” California lawmakers “know the industry stands ready to partner with them to form lasting solutions and prioritize investment in our recycling infrastructure and use of recycled content to get recycling rates where we all want them,” this person added.
The financially precarious USPS determined the costs of more fully electrifying the fleet to be too high, and Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said in a statement at the time the plan was announced in February pointed to USPS’s “fragile financial condition.”ENDORSEMENTS INCOMING: Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions announced a slate of endorsements today for candidates it said have shown commitments to both clean energy and free-market policies.
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