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25 Jun 2010, 4:49 pm by Lyle Denniston
” Judge Feldman ruled that the Interior Department had not justified the shutdown of deepwater drilling, and he chastised the government for using an accident at one well as a rationale for a  disruption of “immense scope” of the Gulf oil industry. [read post]
25 Jun 2010, 1:35 pm by WIMS
    On June 23, Michael Bromwich, the former Department of Justice Inspector General who now leads Interior Department (DOI) reform initiatives to strengthen oversight and policing of offshore oil and gas development, announced that he will establish an investigations and review unit that will help to expedite his oversight, enforcement and re-organization mandates. [read post]
24 Jun 2010, 6:45 pm by Tom Smith
It will doubtless be used for decades in law schools as an example of a really gigantic decision that was simply pulled unceremoniously from a federal department's butt. [read post]
24 Jun 2010, 4:15 pm
Department of Interior’s May 28, 2010, Temporary Moratorium on deepwater drilling. [read post]
24 Jun 2010, 11:55 am by Glenn Reynolds
But that criticism has overlooked a key fact: BP was required by federal regulators to base its preparations on Interior Department models that were last updated in 2004. [read post]
24 Jun 2010, 8:21 am by Douglas Reiser
Money was dumped into the hands of various federal departments to develop facilities and spur the new New Deal. [read post]
24 Jun 2010, 6:31 am by Maxwell Kennerly
Moreover, at the moment, no additional damage is being done to the Gulf, and Judge Feldman has scheduled a conference call this morning to consider staying his injunction while the Department of the Interior appeals his ruling and issues a new moratorium. [read post]
23 Jun 2010, 7:08 pm by Keith Rizzardi
Reg. 32869 / Vol. 75, No. 111 / Thursday, June 10, 2010 / Proposed Rules DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR / Fish and Wildlife Service 50 CFR Part 17 / Docket No. [read post]
23 Jun 2010, 6:14 pm by Keith Rizzardi
Reg. 34077 / Vol. 75, No. 115 / Wednesday, June 16, 2010 / Proposed Rules DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR / Fish and Wildlife Service 50 CFR Part 17 / Docket No. [read post]
23 Jun 2010, 8:22 am by Jonathan H. Adler
None of this means the Interior Department will be unable to justify the broader moratorium. [read post]
23 Jun 2010, 7:53 am
[JURIST] US Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar [official profile] confirmed Tuesday that the Department of Justice [official website] will appeal [press release] a federal court decision to issue a preliminary injunction against a six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling [JURIST reports]. [read post]
22 Jun 2010, 1:39 pm by WIMS
The task forces provided important insights to the Department of Interior during its earliest examination of Gulf operations. [read post]
22 Jun 2010, 12:37 pm by Elie Mystal
District Judge Martin Feldman’s rationale for blocking Obama’s moratorium: Feldman sided with the companies, saying in his ruling the Interior Department assumed that because one rig failed, all companies and rigs doing deepwater drilling pose an imminent danger. [read post]
22 Jun 2010, 11:38 am by Jonathan H. Adler
  The Interior Department said it plans to appeal. [read post]
21 Jun 2010, 1:45 pm by WIMS
Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone of Nevada, a Federally-recognized Indian tribe (the Tribe), the Western Shoshone Defense Project (WSDP), and Great Basin Mine Watch (GBMW) (collectively,Plaintiffs) appeal the district court's denial of their motion for summary judgment, and the grant of summary judgment to the Department of the Interior (DOI), the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), several officers of the BLM, and intervenor Cortez Gold Mines, Inc. [read post]
20 Jun 2010, 9:17 pm by Andrew Raff
Many Republicans in Congress would have tried to block nominees for Interior who were committed to a major overhaul of the department’s environmental priorities. [read post]
20 Jun 2010, 8:02 pm by Jonathan H. Adler
  Rachel Jacobson followed with a discussion of the Interior Department’s response to climate change as both a land manager and resource agency. [read post]
20 Jun 2010, 7:30 am by Howard Friedman
Department of the Interior, (9th Cir., June 18, 2010), the 9th Circuit held that the Bureau of Land Management's approval of an amendment to a phased exploration project on sacred Indian land in Nevada violated the National Environmental Policy Act. [read post]
18 Jun 2010, 9:23 am by Frank Pasquale
Keeping authority in the US may have just made matters worse: MMS depends largely on the self-reporting of oil and gas companies to determine how much they owe in royalties — a system the Interior Department’s former inspector general, Earl Devaney, described as “basically an honor system” in congressional testimony in 2007. . . . [read post]