The Energy Law

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

by Elisabeth Lorio Baer Interior Secretary Ken Salazar informed Congress on September 17, 2009 that he would kill a controversial program, currently in effect, that allows energy companies to pay the government royalties for drilling on public lands in actual oil and gas in lieu of cash. For the full story, see [link]

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The Energy Law

MARCH 12, 2009

By Jason Johanson On Friday, March 6, 2009, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar stated that the agency is considering an appeal to the United States Supreme Court of the decision in Kerr-McGee Oil & Gas Corp. 3d __, 2009 WL57883 (5th Cir. Department of the Interior , __ F.3d

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The Energy Law

JANUARY 16, 2009

A unanimous panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has held that the United States Department of the Interior violated the Outer Continental Shelf Deep Water Royalty Relief Act (“RRA”) by imposing price threshold conditions that require federal lessees to pay royalties when commodity prices rise.

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The Energy Law

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

Title I addresses the existing moratoria, future OCS access, exploration, production and royalty questions. per MMBtu, unless lease royalties were renegotiated with the Secretary , imposes Conservation of Resources Fee on nonproducing lease acreage of $3.75

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The Energy Law

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

In 2009, the Obama administration established estimates of the social cost of carbon (“SCC Estimate”) that all agencies were required to use in their regulatory cost/benefit analysis. Judge Cain also noted that using the SCC Estimate in oil and gas lease reviews would “artificially increase the cost estimates of lease sales.”.

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