Passage of Democrats Inflation Reduction Act capped off years of campaigning for major climate change legislation and breathed new life into the renewable energy sector but not without simultaneously handing a major victory to oil and gas interests by ensuring they have a chance to bid on more federal acreage.
The Department of the Interior has announced the availability of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s (BOEM) Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for two Gulf of Mexico oil and gas lease sales. BOEM is seeking public comments on the Draft Supplemental EIS, which is supporting Lease Sales 259 and 261.
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