EXPLORATION AND PRODUCTION
Under no circumstance should the president of the United States be solely responsible for approving or denying international pipelines and other infrastructure.
Suspend all selling of oil and gas federal leases off the West Coast, Gulf of Mexico or Alaska until further review. Cancel all outstanding oil and gas lease sales in federal waters.
Protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as a wildlife sanctuary. Cancel all outstanding oil and gas lease sales.
Suspend all deep-sea mining until further review. Reverse the Trump/Vance administration’s directive to grant companies exploratory mining permits.
To any extent possible, revoke the Trump/Vance administration’s approval for a mine next to the Boundary Waters that will pollute the pristine wilderness area.
Decrease federal subsidies for fossil fuels.
Extend the Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule, which focuses on efficiency improvements at generating stations and directs states to take the initiative on how they choose to regulate power plant emissions.
Resume the requirement that coal-burning power plants, refineries, steel mills and other industrial facilities report the amount of heat-trapping greenhouse gases that they release into the air.
Reduce U.S. coal production as quickly as possible.
Protect rules for the disposing of coal ash and wastewater from coal-fired power plants.
Protect rules that reduce carbon dioxide emissions from both existing coal-fired and existing and new gas-fired power plants.
Protect limits on greenhouse gas emissions from the drilling and transportation of natural gas.
Fine oil and gas operators for exceeding methane emission limits.
Require oil and gas companies to do everything necessary to limit methane leaks from wells.
Require landfills of a certain size to install and operate methane gas collection and control systems, with specific monitoring and leak standards.
Enforce strict regulations on well construction to achieve the highest possible well integrity.
Enforce tight restrictions on offshore transportation and drilling to alleviate the risk of oil well leaks and tanker catastrophes.
Protect offshore drilling safeguards that were put in place after the explosion on the BP Deepwater Horizon (i.e., things like “blowout preventors”).