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pronounced cute-ore

cutis = (latin) the skin

+ -or a variant of an old English suffix

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Obamas Energy Legacy in the West Could Outlast the Trump Administration

This narrativeoriginally is available on High Country Newsand is part of theClimate Deskcollaboration .

Eight years ago, President-elect Barack Obama wanted Colorado Sen. Ken Salazar to be his Interior secretary. David Hayes, who was resulting Obamas transition team for Interior and other agencies, recollects trekking to Salazars office on Capitol Hill at least twice to attain the case for the Cabinet post.

He had the perfect bait. Three years earlier, Sen. Salazar had led a successful effort to require the Bureau of Land Management to approve renewable energy projects on public land. The agency was supposed to approve 10,000 megawatts of solar, breeze and geothermal electricity by 2015, but under then-President George W. Bush, its congressional mandate went nowhere. Hayes, ensure a rare possibility, told Salazar that as Interior secretary, hed have the chance to make renewables on public land a signature issue.

We talked about renewable energy and how the Interior Department could turbo-charge potential renewable energy on public lands and make up for the historic and long-standing failure to give renewable energy anything like the attention fossil fuels had get on public lands, Hayes recalled in a recent interview.

Salazar took the job, and attained clean energy projects on public land a top priority. The initiative took the department from zero to 60 on renewables, and it is a clear example of the paradigm switching that the Obama administration brought to the West and to its energy development.

Eight years later, a new president-elect has dismissed climate change as a hoax, promised to revive coal and other extractive industries, and sworn to cutor gutthe US Environmental Protection Agency. Come Jan. 20, 2017, many of Obamas initiatives will be under sustained assault. Some of them wont survive. But Obama helped transform the Wests view of its energy potential, and he fostered the region to get involved in the global fight against climate change. Changes like that go deep and may prove harder to undo.

Obama and the West

President Barack Obamas environmental record reflects an inclination toward compromise and incremental advance: He delisted 29 recovered species, but weakened the Endangered Species Act; he designated over two dozen national monuments, more than any other chairperson, but left other key public lands unprotected; he promoted tribal sovereignty, but attained little progress in addressing the systemic inequalities in Indian Country; and he failed in his attempts to loosen Big Ags grip over small ranchers.

Yet Obama may well be remembered as the first leader to severely address the foremost environmental issue of our timesclimate change. Though he supervised upsurges in oil and gas production, he espoused clean energy and tackled greenhouse gas emissions, depicting deep opposition from the fossil fuel industry along the way.

Now arrives a chairperson whose Cabinet selections appear innately friendly to extractives and hostile to public lands and environmental protections. The Republican-backed Trump administration has pledged to roll back as many of Obamas decisions as it can. Still, it may prove hard for it to undo all the accomplishments of the 44 th president.

Climate Change

The presidents work on climate change started slowly. During his first term, Obama spent most of his political capital on the Affordable Healthcare Act and his economic recovery plan to lift the nation out of recession. Following his re-election, however, he focused broadly on domestic energy production and later the growing threat of climate change.

In early 2012, Obama traveled to Boulder City, Nevada, to stand in the midst of a sea of photovoltaic panels at what was at the time the largest facility of its kind in the country. I want everybody here to know that as long as Im president, we will not walk away from the promise of clean energy, he told the crowd. But he also underscored his commitment to drilling. We are going to continue making oil and gas at a record pace. Thats got to be part of what we do. We require energy to grow.

In his 17 -minute speech, which was entirely about energy, Obama did not use the term climate change once, signaling an administration-wide retreat that continued for many months. Congressional Republican, some of whom deny that climate change is a threat and others who reject attempts to deal with it as economically risky, kept attacking. Meanwhile, activists grew impatient.

In February 2013, 48 climate scientists and activists were arrested after some of them cuffed themselves to the White House gate, determined to force Obama to attain potentially politically perilous decisions to fight global warming, such as rejecting the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune, who was among them, told me before the demonstration that their civil disobedience signaled a new level of urgency regarding climate change, and a growing impatience about the absence of political courage that were ensure from the president and from leaders in Congress. The demonstration also marked a major switching for some mainstream environmental groups, who began prodding the president more and cheering him less. This period also watched the rise of brasher environmental groups like 350. org and WildEarth Guardians, who staged large public demonstrations or tackled the president in the courts.

In response, Obama came out with his Climate Action Plan in June 2013. It outlined a sweeping agenda to use his executive powers to slash greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, reduce methane emissions from oil and gas production and cut the federal governments carbon pollution. It also recommended preparing communities for bigger cyclones, rising oceans and fiercer wildfires, and it called for better climate science. In January 2014, Obama recruited John Podesta, former chief of staff for President Bill Clinton, applied by the scheme. Soon, the administration was ticking off successes.

In his final years in office, Obama has rendered a powerful National Climate Change Assessment, preserved vast stretches of land as national monuments, won court battles over its clean auto rules and the EPAs right to govern carbon pollution from power plants, drafted regulations to slash greenhouse gases, and negotiated major bilateral treaties with China, India and Brazil, as well as the historic Paris Climate Agreement with nearly every nation on the planet. What had started slowly was picking up steam.

Under Obama, the Interior Department started analyzing climate impacts across broad sceneries, blending the forces of various country and federal agencies and universities. The department set up and staffed 22 scenery conservation cooperatives across the country and eight regional climate centers. The National Park Service, which had no climate change program before Obama, has completed climate impact assessments on 235 of 413 of the nations parksdocumenting intensified wildfires, hastened snowmelt, vanishing glaciers, rising sea and pond levels, warming rivers and displaced plants and animals.

All told, Obama has elevated climate changes important for federal land and water managers and invigorated country and local action.

Its a gargantuan legacy, tells Douglas Brinkley, a historian at Rice University. I put him as one of the top environmental presidents in history. Hes not Theodore or Franklin Roosevelt. But hes in that league with Lyndon Johnson, J.F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon. Climate change is shaping up to be a major issue for Obamas post-presidential life. Its become personal to him. His spouse and daughters have helped him reach this conclusion.

Obama himself underscored his dedication on a trip to Yosemite National Park in June with the First lady and their daughters. When we look to the next century, the next 100 years, the task of protecting our sacred spaces is even more important, he told some 200 invited guests, against the stunning backdrop of Upper and Lower Yosemite Falls. And the biggest challenge were going to face, in protecting this place and places like it, is climate change. Make no mistake: Climate change is no longer only a threat; its already a reality.

Renewables

Throughout the West, climate change has exacerbated forest flames, threatened water supplies, flooded communities, killed millions of trees and irreversibly altered the landscape. As these consequences have become clearer, the Obama administration has helped steer the West toward a cleaner energy future.

Eight years after Salazar became Interior secretary, the BLM has approved plans for 15,000 megawatts of renewable power, enough to power millions of homes. Projects up to 5,500 megawatts worth of power are already constructed or under construction, mostly in California and Nevada.

By establishing a system for approving renewable energy projects on public lands, the Obama administration helped drive phenomenal growth in renewable electricity in the West and a precipitous drop in prices. I think it is an unsung part of the administrations legacy, and I guess the administration can and should be taking credit for really creating the conditions for this huge clean energy revolution to take off, tells Rhea Suh, who was assistant secretary of Interior for policy management and budget until she became president of the Natural Resource Defense Council last year.

After Congress passed the Energy Policy Act of 2005, Ray Brady was tapped to be the BLMs manager for implementing the law. With targets for renewable energy 10 years in the future , nothing much happened. The top staff at relevant agencies dedicated the new program little notice. Expediting oil and gas production was their chief focus. The agency didnt even open a renewable energy office. That all changed when Salazar strolled in the door.

In his first secretarial order, in March 2009, Salazar moved up the deadline for permitting 10,000 megawatts of clean power on BLM lands three years, to 2012. We have to connect the sun of the deserts and the wind of the plains with the places where people live, Salazar said at the time. He pushed his staff to identify specific zones on US public lands suitable for large-scale production of solar, breeze, geothermal and biomass energy.

This was a revolutionary vision at the time; there werent any large-scale solar plants anywhere in the United State. Brady had to travel to Spain in 2008 only to glimpse the technology. For decades, Brady had been an obscure bureaucrat, but suddenly he found himself regularly summoned to high-level meetings with Salazar and other Interior leaders. Meanwhile, Salazar gratified regularly with other Cabinet membersincluding the secretaries of Defense, Agriculture and the Treasuryto knock down barriers to nascent projects.

The timing was right: Obama had campaigned, twice, on the promise of clean energy and its ability to create good chores for the future. And there was a growing marketplace for renewable power, because many Western countries had passed renewable energy requirements, while California was seeking one of the worlds most aggressive commitments to greenhouse gas reduction.

The enormity of the endeavor truly struck Brady when he first visited the Ivanpah Solar Generating System project in San Bernardino County, California, in 2012: Three glistening towers, arising as a result of the desolate desert, each surrounded by a huge circular field of mirrors, 173,500 of them, and covering 3,500 acres of BLM land.( Critic tell such facilities endanger birds and other wildlife, but the project stands as a monument to the shifting attitudes toward energy on public lands .)

For much of his career, Brady worked on oil and gas, where drilling pads covered a single acre. Its awe-inspiring, said Brady, who lately retired from the BLM. I was absolutely astonished by the scope and scale and sizing of the project. It had not sink into me before that. It truly was, in my mind, the most exciting period in my 40 -year career.

While nudging individual projects forward, the agencys new renewable energy office worked to track down Western locations suited to solar power. They looked for easy access to transmission lines and big metropolitan areas, absence of conflicts with local tribes, and few risks to endangered wildlife and plants or other fragile national resources. In these so-called solar energy zones, relevant agencies conducts the environmental analysis up-front, to reduce permitting hours. The BLM held its first-ever competitive auction for solar projects in the summer of 2014. Three companies won bids, and one lately started construction in Dry Lake, Nevada , north of Las Vegas.

Interior was much less successful at establishing wind power on public land. The Chokecherry and Sierra Madre gale project in south-central Wyoming, for example, has been a priority since Salazar took the helm at Interior. The enormous project would erect up to 1,000 breeze turbines, applying as many as 1,000 people during peak construction, and eventually provide clean electricity to about a million homes. The BLM dedicated it basic acceptance in 2012, but many more permitting requirements remained. To put it bluntly, they lost momentum, tells Bill Miller, chairperson of two subsidiaries of the Anschutz Power Company of Wyoming and TransWest Express. Miller still believes in the project despite the postpones. He told me: There is no better wind asset in the country. And hes optimistic that hell get final acceptance before Obama leaves office to erect the first 500 turbines.

With plenty of windy places on private land, wind developers may simply ignore public land. But both geothermal and solar projects have a bright future, even under a Donald Trump administration. The cost of photovoltaic solar system continues to fell, making public land attractive for small and mid-sized projects, especially in areas where relevant agencies has done the upfront work, so developers can get comparatively quick acceptance. This fall, its management and California state government completed the Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan, which charts a course for developing clean power across 22 million acres of desert. In November, the administration finished the regulations that will govern competitive leasing for renewable power projects on public land.

Extractives

Still, when it comes to fossil fuels, the administrations record remains mixed as far as what it did, and didnt do, for the climate. Obama curtailed fossil fuel pollution but failed to significantly limit industrys access to the publics vast fossil fuel resources. Even while promoting renewable energy, the White House simultaneously supported an expansion of oil and gas drilling. Shale gas production grew fourfold from 2009 to 2015, oil production virtually doubled, and petroleum exportations tripled.

On the regulatory side, though, the EPA defined new regulations to reduce leakage of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, from new oil and gas drilling. Near the end of the administration, the BLM went even further, setting new requirements to reduce methane leaks from existing oil and gas operations on public land.

Obama was slow to apply his climate change principles to fossil fuels beneath federal land. Throughout his administration, the Interior Department continues to lease federal lands for oil and gas development and struggle in court against environmentalists keep it in the ground campaign.

Coal, long the mainstay of US electricity production, declined dramatically during Obamas tenure, a fact that helped the nation reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. This was primarily due to rivalry from abundant, low-price natural gas, caused by the boom in hydraulic fracturing. But Obamas air pollution policies played a role, too. By setting the first-ever limits for mercury and other toxic air pollutants, Obama forced companies to decide whether it was cheaper to install expensive pollution-control devices or switch to natural gas or renewables. What the Obama administration rules did was force utilities to consider the issue about whether or not to keep coal online, the Sierra Clubs Brune explained.

But most of this progress was research results of the EPAs work. It was only in the final 18 months of Obamas term that Sally Jewell, who replaced Salazar as Interior secretary, started scrutinizing the departments coal policies. She held listening sessions in coal country and in Washington, DC. In January, she defined a moratorium on new coal leasing and ordered the first-ever analysis of greenhouse gas impacts from federal coal, which accounts for more than 40 percent of the coal used to produce electricity in the US. In Obamas last State of the Union address, in January, he declared that it was time to revamp the route the country manages its coal and petroleum, so that they better reflect the costs they impose on taxpayers and the planet.

Despite this, the administration pulled its punches on federal coal until its final days. Most notable was its decision to support Colorados plan to allow expansion of coal mining into otherwise roadless national forest areas in the North Fork Valley( where High Country News is headquartered ).

In 2014, a federal magistrate halted an expansion of Colorados West Elk Mine because the BLM and Forest Service had failed to take a hard look at the climate impacts that an exemption to the roadless rule would create. Environmental groups had sued, demanding that the BLM and Forest Service calculate the costs to society of greenhouse gas emissions from the mining and combustion of that federal coal.

In November, the Forest Service released an environmental impact statement that revealed that its preferred alternative could increase greenhouse gas emissions 433 million tons over day and cost society billions of dollars. Yet it continued to insist that the expansion should take place.

The pollution would come from burning the coal for electricity and from venting methane into the air during mining. Methane is high at West Elk because the coal seams are especially gassy.

Robert Bonnie, undersecretary of Agriculture for natural resources and the environment, justified government decisions. No one is under the belief that were going to immediately change the energy mixture starting today, he said. Theres going to be some level of coal for some time to come.

But Earthjustice attorney Ted Zukoski sees a deep hypocrisy in government decisions. There is a conflict between this administrations soaring and bold rhetoric on the need to address climate change and its failure to keep fossil fuels in the ground, he tells. Billions of tons of federal coal were leased on Obamas watch.

As for natural gas and petroleum, the administration purposefully avoided regulations that would slacken the upsurge in production. This administration was not willing or be permitted to take on two fossil fuel industries at the same day, Brune told me. And it proactively took many steps to help support the gas industry. Were going to be wrestling with the effects of that for decades. An increased reliance on natural gas is a disaster for our climate.

What Will Remain?

During most of his administration, Obama faced Republican in Congress who simply refused to legislate. In reaction, Obama turned to executive action. Now, however, Trumps win endangers much of the progress he made. Trump has vowed to abandon the Paris climate treaty and cancel the Clean Power Plan. Although the specifics remain unclear, many of Obamas other climate policies, such as his methane regulations, are also at risk. But some important changes may escape Trumps chopping block. The administration and the current policy dont stand alone, so that they are able to have lasting impact. Obamas energy and climate change policies augmented on-the-ground realities, such as many Western countries eagerness to embrace renewable energy and the improving economics of solar power. They helped facilitate it, said Mark Squillace, statute prof at the University of Colorado at Boulder. But the story of the West will be about what the states are doing.

In the Southwest, for example, local, country and federal government officials, scientists and business have long worried about the impacts of climate change on water supply, fragile species and wildfire. Obamas conservation cooperatives and regional climate centers filled a void. Everybody knew these things were happening, said Jonathan Overpeck, director of the University of Arizonas Institute of the Environment. Now we have a mandate for research and figuring out what can we do about it. Were trying to not only generate scientific knowledge to the purposes of curiosity, but to make sure were producing science thats useful.

Hayes, meanwhile, who had been tapped for a big role in a Clinton transition, was flabbergasted by the election results. He hopes the Interior Departments commitment to climate science will survive the new administration.

Even if research continues, many of Obamas fossil fuel regulations surely will be targeted by Trumps administration. The new EPA chief and Interior secretary could settle industry suits by asking courts to send Obamas rulesincluding the Clean Power Plan, methane the regulation and BLMs fracking regulationsback to agencies to rewrite them. Environmental groups would then likely sue to block Trumps new the regulation and reinstate Obamas, and the ensuing legal battles could take years.

If Trump get only one term and is replaced by a Democrat, damage will be significant but also limited, Squillace said. I think if Trump get two words, all gambles are off and significant change in public lands and environmental policy will occur.

Another danger is a possible government brain drain. Squillace, for example, was a young lawyer at the Interior Department when President Ronald Reagan appointed Interior Secretary James Watt, who was hostile to conservation. Squillace recollects asking to be taken off one case after another, because he considered Watts positions indefensible. After nine months of this, he resigned. Trump may inspire a similar exodus of researchers and lawyers.

Regardless, some of Obamas climate policies likely will withstand at the least the early years of a Trump administration, particularly the BLMs renewable energy program. If Trump kills the Clean Power Plan, that would take out one driver for big solar projects on public land. But others wont disappear, most significantly, California Gov. Jerry Browns directive that his country get 50 percent of its power from renewable sources by 2030.

Steve Black, who was Salazars counselor at Interior and now is an energy and climate policy consultant are stationed in California, considers other reasons for optimism. More than 100 full-time, career BLM staffers work in renewable energy offices across the West that didnt exist before Obama. Massive projects like Ivanpah will maintain delivering clean power to the grid. Theres steel in the ground, he said. We constructed 15 utility-scale projects. Those things cant be changed. I do think there are lasting elements of this legacy.

Despite Trumps cheerleading for coal, the new administration is unlikely to rescue the dirtiest fossil fuel. Market forces-out, namely low natural gas prices, are the main reason for its downturn, but the growing international desire to combat climate change is another. Trump similarly is unlikely to boost oil and gas production, as long as prices are low. For instance, Trump and a Republican Congress may open the Arctic Wildlife Refuge to petroleum companies, but high costs could deter drilling.

And even with a president and Congress unwilling to tackle tough questions on energy and the climate, states will remain largely responsible for their own energy selections. Even with big utilities opposing hard against solar, low renewable energy prices and country mandates will attain the clean energy revolution hard to stop. Its unlikely that Trump will want to be responsible for killing the good chores that renewable energy is creating. For all its starts and stops, the Obama administration helped the West embrace a clean energy future that takes climate change into consideration. Trumps administration wont be able to change that.

This narrative was money with reader donations to the High Country News Research Fund . Correspondent Elizabeth Shogren writes HCNs DC Dispatches from Washington .

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