Category: Doug Burgum
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Northeast governors demand end to latest pause on offshore wind
Northeast governors demand end to latest pause on offshore wind New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey and Rhode Island Gov, Dan McKee have written Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum demanding the immediate lifting of stop work orders for five offshore wind projects. Trump Administration cites radar clutter…
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Big Beautiful Gulf 1 oil and gas lease sale generates $279.4M in high bids
Big Beautiful Gulf 1 oil and gas lease sale generates $279.4M in high bids The Department of the Interior today announced that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management successfully conducted Lease Sale Big Beautiful Gulf 1, which is the first mandatory offshore oil and gas lease sale required under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.…
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New U.S. OCS oil and gas lease sales in the works
New U.S. OCS oil and gas lease sales in the works Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum last Friday directed the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management to initiate the first step in a public engagement process to develop a new schedule for offshore oil and gas lease sales on the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf (OCS).…
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Hochul to fight Burgum shut down of Empire Wind “every step of the way”
Hochul to fight Burgum shut down of Empire Wind “every step of the way” In an announcement on a social media post, Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum said yesterday that he had ordered BOEM to immediately halt all construction activities on the Empire Wind Project “until further review of information that suggests the Biden…
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Joint resolution scraps rule seen as hindering offshore energy development
Joint resolution scraps rule seen as hindering offshore energy development In a move applauded by Secretary of the Interior Doug Bergum as fostering offshore energy development, President Trump last week signed S.J.Res.11, a joint resolution disapproving the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s rule titled “Protection of Marine Archaeological Resources.” The BOEM rule, published under the…