President Biden's nominee for a high-ranking Interior Department post is in serious jeopardy after an internal memo showed her prioritizing the climate agenda over energy security.
An internal memo from the U.S. Interior Department suggesting that the agency set the highest possible royalty fee on potential oil and gas development before last year’s Cook Inlet lease sale is drawing blowback from the Democratic chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin said in a statement he was “appalled” by the memo,
The Biden administration acknowledged in a memo, accidentally leaked on Friday, that charging fossil fuel companies less to drill would provide “greater energy security” despite its plans.