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Federal Fossil Fuel Phaseouts

MCLI Recommendation: “Congress could enact a direct prohibition or phaseout on the use of fossil fuels, or put a limit on GHG emissions related to power generation.”

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Resource Congress

2017’s proposed Keep It In the Ground Act

2017’s proposed Keep It In the Ground Act would have amended the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to prohibit BOEM from authorizing the exploration or production of oil, natural gas, or any other fos...
Model Law Congress

LPDD Model Law: Federal Fossil Fuels Leasing Reform Act

The U.S. Geological Survey determined in 2018 that fossil fuel production from the public lands and Outer Continental Shelf of the United States accounted for nearly 24 percent of U.S. contributions t...
Resource Executive Branch

Report, A New Way Forward on Climate Change and Energy Development for Public Lands and Waters

Anticipating a change in Presidential Administration, this 2020 report from the Institute for Policy Integrity describes immediate and longer-term actions that Interior’s Bureau of Land Management and...
Resource Executive Branch

Executive Order 14008

EO 14088, one of the first Executive Orders signed during the Biden Administration, has been hailed as “a mini Green New Deal” in effect. It has several disparate provisions aimed at climate and clima...
Resource Executive Branch

Report, Look Before You Lease

The Institute for Policy Integrity’s 2020 report, Look Before You Lease, argues that the federal government currently fails to account for option value in its public land management processes, resulti...
Resource Congress

Proposed Ocean-Based Climate Solutions Act (2020)

Note: Elements of this proposed legislation overlap substantially with the LPDD Model Law, published Sept. 2020, Model Amendments to the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships, which would require all sh...
Resource Congress

2017’s proposed Off Fossil Fuels for a Better Future Act

2017’s proposed Off Fossil Fuels for a Better Future Act included a federal moratorium on new major fossil fuel projects, to commence in 2018.
Resource Executive Branch

Evergreen Report on 100% Clean Power Post-IRA

In January 2023, the Evergreen Collaborative and NRDC published a paper outlining the roadmap towards 80 percent clean power by 2030 and 100 percent clean electricity by 2035, building on the passage ...
Example Executive Branch

EO 14057

In December 2021, President Biden signed EO 14057, which orders the U.S. government to be “net-zero” by 2050. EO 14057 directs the federal government to leverage its 300,000 buildings, 600,000 cars an...
Example Executive Branch

Secretary’s Order 3338

The Obama Administration’s Secretary’s Order 3338 prohibited new coal exploration on public lands for a period. This type of EO could be seen as a model for a future president to apply to all fossil f...