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The Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP) at Columbia University SIPA today announced recent additions to its staff supporting research, operations, and administrative goals within the Center. “The...

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Positive Signs From the Recent Gulf of Mexico Offshore Oil and Gas Lease Sale

Last fall the Department of the Interior (DOI) announced a region-wide lease sale scheduled for the spring of 2018 that would be “the largest oil and gas lease sale ever held in the United States,” offering about 77 million acres in federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM). Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke called the sale a bellwether for offshore development, trumpeting it as “part of our strategy to spur local and regional economic dynamism and job creation and a pillar of President Trump’s plan to make the United States energy dominant” in a press release that included statements from ten members of Congress and two Gulf state governors.

Commentary by Tommy Beaudreau • April 16, 2018
Positive Signs From the Recent Gulf of Mexico Offshore Oil and Gas Lease Sale

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