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March 2, 2020

James Lucier quoted in Bloomberg Green

"A Democrat in the White House Could Do Plenty to Fight Climate Change" by Jennifer Dlouhy


James Lucier quoted in Jennifer Dlouhy's Bloomberg Green article, "A Democrat in the White House Could Do Plenty to Fight Climate Change."

The article reads:

“Yanking existing leases is hard,” says James Lucier, managing director of research firm Capital Alpha Partners LLC. But the president can make these contracts more difficult to exploit through incremental policies that would restrict drilling or raise the royalties paid for extracted oil. Simply by increasing scrutiny of applications to use federal rights of way, the Interior Department could make it more difficult for developers to build pipelines and other necessary infrastructure.

Full article: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-02/a-democrat-in-the-white-house-could-do-plenty-to-fight-climate-change