** FERC approves Jordan Cove natural gas export terminal
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Monday, March 23, 2020
Jordan Cove Energy Project proposal ([link removed])

Natural gas produced in the West could soon be shipped off to Asian markets. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved the controversial Jordan Cove energy project ([link removed]) , including the first west coast liquified natural gas export terminal and a 230-mile stretch of pipeline that would connect the facility to pipelines that stretch to oil fields in Wyoming. Jordan Cove Energy Project LP and Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline LP, both subsidiaries of the Canadian company Pembina, hired Interior Secretary David Bernhardt's former lobbying firm ([link removed]) , Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, to lobby Interior on the project.

Although the project now has approval from federal regulators, the Canadian company still needs to qualify for state permits and start the eminent domain process ([link removed]) to force landowners to sell easements to the company for pipeline construction. In a statement, Oregon Governor Kate Brown said ([link removed]) , “Until this project has received every single required permit from state and local agencies, I will use every available tool to prevent the company from taking early action on condemning private property or clearing land."

Oil and gas production in the West has boomed under the Trump administration, but the industry faces an uncertain future due to recent price crashes ([link removed]) . One-quarter of all greenhouse gas emissions ([link removed]) produced by the United States comes from fossil fuel production on public lands. If lands leased under the Trump administration were developed, the fossil fuels extracted could match the emissions ([link removed]) reported by all 28 European Union countries combined in a year.
Quick hits


** Trump administration continues oil and gas leasing on public lands during price drop and coronavirus pandemic
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Washington Post ([link removed]) | Casper Star-Tribune ([link removed])


** Coal industry asks for bailout money, financially beneficial rollbacks amid coronavirus
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The Hill ([link removed])


** U.S. oil workers pay the price in Saudi-Russian oil war, coronavirus pandemic drives collapse of oil prices
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New York Times ([link removed]) | Washington Post ([link removed])


** See the animals caught on camera diverting around new border wall construction
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Washington Post ([link removed])


** Federal wild horse management program short of money and palatable solutions
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New York Times ([link removed])


** BLM resource management plan leaves majority of central Montana's public lands open to oil and gas
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Great Falls Tribune ([link removed])


** The danger to the gateway communities of self-isolation on public lands
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High Country News ([link removed]) | Salt Lake Tribune ([link removed]) (opinion)


** National parks continue to close due to pandemic
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Colorado Sun ([link removed]) | Los Angeles Times ([link removed]) | San Francisco Chronicle ([link removed])
Quote of the day
The coal industry is taking advantage of the country’s current circumstances to advocate for policies that are completely unrelated to the current crisis."

—Representatives Raúl Grijalva and Matt Cartwright ([link removed])
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** Dusted with snow, the red rock cliffs @ZionNPS ([link removed]) stand resolute in the glowing light of dusk #Utah ([link removed]) #FindYourPark ([link removed]) | @Interior ([link removed])
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