BLM, the Administrative Presidency, and Policy Shifts: Policy Tools Affecting Oil and Gas Operations

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• 作者：Charles Davis
• 刊名：Review of Policy Research
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：September 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：33
• 期：5
• 页码：492-505
• 全文大小：126K
• ISSN：1541-1338

文摘

This paper addresses change in oil and gas policies pushed by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) during the administrations of Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. Administrative policy changes occurred not only because of election outcomes and the emergence of new governing coalitions but BLM's selective utilization of policy tools such as rulemaking, planning, environmental impact analyses, and the use of discretionary authority to increase or relax enforcement decisions. The data reveal that BLM put more emphasis on the use of discretionary authority to limit environmental inspections and to limit environmental reviews of proposed drilling projects under Bush while agency officials gave priority to adopting new planning procedures to allow greater stakeholder input under Obama as well as increasing the number of environmental inspections.