{"id":331879,"date":"2026-05-25T18:29:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T18:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/331879\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T18:29:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T18:29:18","slug":"blm-issues-final-analysis-for-proposed-management-updates-for-oil-and-gas-leasing-and-development-on-public-lands-in-california-central-coast-region-including-portions-of-fresno-merced-and-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/331879\/","title":{"rendered":"BLM Issues Final Analysis for Proposed Management Updates for Oil and Gas Leasing and Development on Public Lands\u202fin California Central Coast Region Including Portions of Fresno, Merced, and San Joaquin Counties"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Oil wells\u00a0 \u00a0 Credit: BLM<\/p>\n

May 25, 2026 – MARINA, Calif. \u2013\u00a0The Bureau of Land Management has issued the final supplemental environmental impact statement analyzing updated and new information\u202ffor oil and gas leasing and development on public lands\u202fin Alameda, Contra Costa, Monterey, San Benito, San Mateo, Santa Clara, and Santa Cruz counties, and portions of Fresno, Merced, and San Joaquin counties.<\/p>\n

The effort aligns with\u00a0Secretary’s Order 3418<\/a>, which supports President Trump\u2019s call for \u201cUnleashing American Energy<\/a>,\u201d aimed at increasing energy exploration and production on federal lands in an affordable and reliable manner. The order emphasizes development of oil, gas, coal, strategic minerals, and alternative energy sources on public lands.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Environmental Protection Agency will\u00a0publish a notice<\/a>\u00a0in tomorrow\u2019s Federal Register.\u00a0Additional information is available at the\u00a0BLM National NEPA Register<\/a>. For more information, please contact BLM Central Coast Field Office at\u00a0BLM_CA_CCFO_OIL_GAS_SEIS@blm.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The BLM Central Coast Field Office manages approximately 284,000 acres of public land and another 509,000 acres of federal mineral estate in central California. The agency collects a 12.5% royalty on existing oil and gas leases for all production from federal minerals, generating about $65\u201390 million each year. Roughly half of this revenue is returned to the state of California, with the remainder deposited in the U.S. Treasury.<\/p>\n

Source: BLM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oil wells\u00a0 \u00a0 Credit: BLM May 25, 2026 – MARINA, Calif. \u2013\u00a0The Bureau of Land Management has issued…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[137532,137531,112,114,113,5389],"class_list":["post-331879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-and-san-joaquin-counties","tag-blm-issues-final-analysis-for-proposed-management-updates-for-oil-and-gas-leasing-and-development-on-public-lands-in-california-central-coast-region-including-portions-of-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-merced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}