What's Happening in Natural Resources

TCS Statement on BLM’s Setting of Fees for Solar Energy Development on Federal Lands

Today, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released the schedule of rental fees it will charge for development of solar generation...

Senator Seeks Repeal of Billions of Dollars in Subsidies to Oil and Gas Companies

 Today, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) filed an amendment, 4318, to so-called tax extenders legislation that would repeal $35 billion...

GAO Reports Oil & Gas Royalties Not Measuring Up

In its latest of many critical reviews, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) this week issued a report criticizing the Department...

Oil and Gas Orphans Cost Taxpayers Millions

Today the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a detailed report documenting taxpayer costs for cleaning up oil and gas wells...

Oil Companies To Reap More Profits on Backs of Federal Taxpayers

Taxpayers will likely lose at least $19 billion to oil and gas companies operating in the Gulf of Mexico. Today, the U.S. Supreme Court...

NEW ANALYSIS: Royalty-in-Kind Program Costing Taxpayers Millions

Oil and Gas companies have skirted millions of dollars in payments owed to the federal government for the extraction of natural gas from...

Salazar Announces Termination of Royalty-in-Kind Program

This morning, Interior Secretary Salazar announced that he will end the mismanaged and wasteful Minerals Management Service’s (MMS)...

More than 161,000 Abandoned Mines in the West

A recent GAO report found that there are at least 161,000 abandoned mines in western states. The research, conducted in the states of...

Important Legislation Calls for End to Double Subsidies for Hardrock Mining Operations

Taxpayers for Common Sense applauds Senators Feingold (D-WI), Cantwell (D-WA), and Feinstein (D- CA) for introducing the Elimination of...

TCS Letter Supporting the Elimination of Double Subsidies for the Hardrock Mining Industry Act of 2009

This week TCS released a letter to Congress supporting the Elimination of Double Subsidies for the Hardrock Mining Industry Act of 2009 ....

Engineering Boondoggles

While Washington is wringing its hands about the automatic across-the-board budget cuts known as...