The Biden administration on Friday recommended an overhaul of the nation's oil and gas leasing program to limit areas available areas for energy development and raise costs.
The Biden administration is planning to sell oil and gas leases on huge tracts of public land in the U.S. West, despite the Interior Department s conclusion that doing so could
Jun. 11—Two days after 24 Democratic state legislators sent President Joe Biden a letter expressing their "strong support" for his moratorium on federal oil and gas leases, 39 Republican lawmakers penned a letter of their own Thursday to voice "a different and contrary perspective." "It is time for us as policymakers, who represent families and business people across our great state, to stand .