oil & gas

The latest Utah news from Thursday evening, Sept. 2, 2021.

The state’s Community Impact Board is in charge of distributing funds from federal oil and gas revenue. The money should be going toward alleviating the impact of extraction, but Utah environmental groups claim they aren’t doing that.

Environmentalists say now is not the time for more fossil fuel projects, pointing to Utah’s poor air quality and the U.N.’s troubling climate change report released this week.

Oil production is ramping up on federal public lands despite President Biden’s promise to end new drilling. Approvals for new projects are on pace to hit their highest levels since the Bush administration. Environmentalists are objecting to the approvals saying it exacerbates climate change.

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The latest Utah news from Thursday evening, May 27, 2021.

The U.S. Interior Department’s energy leasing review is in full swing, following a call Thursday with a wide range of stakeholders. President Joe Biden requested the review back in January, when he indefinitely paused all leasing on federal public lands.

Utah is supposed to spend revenue generated by drilling and mining on federal public lands to offset extraction impacts. But a state senator from Duchesne County has filed legislation that could change that.

President Joe Biden’s administration is expected to announce an extended moratorium on oil and gas leasing Wednesday, according to the Associated Press. The ban would apply to all federal public lands and would follow a 60-day pause on new leasing announced last week.

Almost 700,000 acres of public land in the Western United States could be leased to energy developers before the end of 2020, including 51,000 acres in Utah.

The Utah Legislature is considering a bill this week that would put a one year pause on new oil and gas regulations in counties with fewer than 125,000…

Environmental groups are suing a Utah state board that distributes oil and mining royalties to communities impacted by natural resource extraction. The…