{"id":18943,"date":"2023-07-31T11:08:37","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T16:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/climatechange\/?p=18943"},"modified":"2023-08-02T11:21:54","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T16:21:54","slug":"the-willow-project-heads-to-court-sabin-center-files-amicus-brief-in-support-of-plaintiffs-challenging-blms-approval-of-the-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/climatechange\/2023\/07\/31\/the-willow-project-heads-to-court-sabin-center-files-amicus-brief-in-support-of-plaintiffs-challenging-blms-approval-of-the-project\/","title":{"rendered":"The Willow Project Heads to Court: Sabin Center Files Amicus Brief in Support of Plaintiffs Challenging BLM\u2019s Approval of the Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/climatechange\/files\/2023\/05\/Oil-Drill-300x225-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-17609 \" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/climatechange\/files\/2023\/05\/Oil-Drill-300x225-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"312\" height=\"234\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Last Wednesday, July 26, the Sabin Center filed an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/climate.law.columbia.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/content\/Willow%20amicus%20brief%20-%20FILED.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">amicus brief<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in support of the plaintiffs in <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/climatecasechart.com\/case\/sovereign-inupiat-for-a-living-arctic-v-bureau-of-land-management-2\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sovereign I\u00f1upiat for a Living Arctic v. Bureau of Land Management (BLM)<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Center for Biological Diversity v. BLM<\/span><\/i><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2013<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">two lawsuits challenging BLM\u2019s approval of the so-called \u201cWillow Project\u201d on the North Slope of Alaska. The project, to be developed by ConocoPhillips, would involve the drilling of up to 199 new oil wells and the construction of related infrastructure, including pipelines, processing facilities, roads, and boat ramps. BLM projects that it will produce 576 million barrels of oil over its 30-year lifetime, resulting in indirect emissions totaling 239 million metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">) equivalent. The project is controversial due to both its location and its climate impacts. The North Slope of Alaska is the largest undisturbed track of public land in the U.S. and an area that is highly sensitive to climate change due to the Arctic environment. The project will cause significant disturbances to surface resources and will also open up the area to future oil and gas development.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Many groups have critiqued BLM\u2019s approval of the Willow Project on the grounds that it is inconsistent with U.S. climate commitments and Biden\u2019s campaign promise to end oil and gas leasing on public lands. The administration has tried to disavow responsibility for the approval by asserting that it has a legal obligation to allow ConocoPhillips to \u201cfully develop\u201d oil resources in the project area. However, as we discuss in our brief and in a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/climatechange\/2023\/05\/10\/rethinking-the-willow-project-did-blm-have-other-options\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">previous blog post<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, BLM has misconstrued its legal authority. BLM can restrict the scope of the Willow Project in order to mitigate adverse effects on surface resources, including adverse effects attributable to the project\u2019s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Our brief identifies several specific legal deficiencies in BLM\u2019s analysis of climate change-related considerations for the Willow Project:<\/span><b><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Because BLM adopted the erroneous view that ConocoPhillips must be allowed to \u201cfully develop\u201d oil resources in the areas it leased from the federal government, BLM did not consider project alternatives that would entail less oil production and fewer GHG emissions. BLM thus failed to discharge its obligation to conduct a meaningful assessment of project alternatives and mitigation measures as required by the the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">BLM also violated NEPA by failing to adequately assess the indirect and growth-inducing effects of the Willow Project. BLM explicitly acknowledged that this project would make it easier and more economically viable to develop additional oil and gas resources in the area, identified a number of \u201creasonably foreseeable\u201d future projects, and even estimated oil production from one of those projects. However, BLM did not fully evaluate the GHG emissions from induced oil and gas production.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">BLM violated the Endangered Species Act (ESA) by failing to consider how GHG emissions from the project would affect endangered species, despite the fact that there is climate attribution research which can be used to conduct such an assessment.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Our brief also emphasizes the importance of the federal government adopting a rational approach to its assessment of new fossil fuel infrastructure. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)\u2019s latest assessment report (AR6) found that the world has already reached key limits with regards to fossil fuel infrastructure &#8212; e.g., the emissions from <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">existing<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> fossil fuel infrastructure, as of 2019, are larger than the total remaining carbon budget for 1.5\u00b0C and approximately equal to the remaining budget for 2.0\u00b0C. Most remaining fossil fuel reserves will, therefore, need to be left in the ground in order to avoid significant overshoot of the temperature targets. Given this, it is critically important that the U.S. government adopt an energy planning approach that includes, at minimum, careful consideration of the climate implications of new fossil fuel infrastructure and opportunities to reduce path dependency on fossil fuels.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The full brief is available <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/climate.law.columbia.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/content\/Willow%20amicus%20brief%20-%20FILED.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Wednesday, July 26, the Sabin Center filed an amicus brief in support of the plaintiffs in Sovereign I\u00f1upiat for a Living Arctic v. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and Center for Biological Diversity v. BLM \u2013 two lawsuits challenging BLM\u2019s approval of the so-called \u201cWillow Project\u201d on the North Slope of Alaska. 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