Sale of federal oil and gas leases in Gulf of Mexico on hold pending hearings on whale protections

Bidding on the leases had been set for next Wednesday. President Joe Biden's administration announced the sale earlier this year. But it was scaled back by millions of acres as part of an agreement to protect the endangered Rice's whale.

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