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Diverse Coalition of 21 Moves to Defend Biden Administration's Oil, Gas Leasing Pause


Taylor McKinnon, Center for Biological Diversity, (801) 300-2414, [email protected]
Courtney Bourgoin, Sierra Club, (248) 214-6682, [email protected]
Liam Kelly, National Parks Conservation Association, (213) 814-8666, [email protected]
Jeremy Nichols, WildEarth Guardians, (303) 437-7663, [email protected]
Justin Wasser, Earthworks, (202) 753-7016, [email protected]
Cheyenne, WY —
Farmers and ranchers, conservation, recreation, and tribal groups filed motions to intervene today to defend the Biden administration’s pause on federal oil and gas leasing pending the Department of Interior’s comprehensive review of the program. With this action, the groups seek to defend the leasing pause against two lawsuits filed by Wyoming and the Western Energy Alliance. The coalition argues this is the legal and necessary first step to a long-overdue review of the federal oil and gas leasing and per ....

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Public land is no longer on sale to oil and gas companies


President Biden’s leasing pause signals a major shift in federal land policy.
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Analysis
Jan. 29, 2021
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On Jan. 27, President Joseph Biden planted a continent-sized “not for sale” sign on the public lands and waters managed by the federal government. In an executive order part of a sweeping set of orders focused on climate change Biden directed Interior Secretary nominee Deb Haaland to reassess the federal oil and gas leasing system and, at least for now, to pause the sale of development rights to private companies. 
The move upends the bipartisan status quo of selling vast stretches of the Western U.S. to fossil fuel companies. Currently, those companies hold leases to more than 26 million acres, more than half of which have yet to be drilled. (About 10% of that untapped land was either auctioned off at the minimum bid price of $2 per acre or ....

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