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Leasing of federal lands for fossil fuels production

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:6459473
The federal government's ownership of offshore and onshore lands bearing coal, oil, and gas gives it a dominating role in future domestic energy supply. Some may welcome this, others deplore it, but neither attitude will alter the importance to the economy of the terms and the pace of the federal government's leasing of its fossil fuel resources.
Research Organization:
Resources for the Future, Inc., Washington, DC (United States); Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, Baltimore, MD (United States)
OSTI ID:
6459473
Report Number(s):
JHUP-0245/XAB; ISBN: 0-801821-94-0
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English