The Biden administration quietly announced Friday that it was restarting the sale of oil and gas leases on federal land next week — almost exactly 15 months after President Biden imposed a moratorium on such sales upon taking office.
The Interior Department announced that its Bureau of Land Management would make approximately 144,000 acres of federal land available for lease beginning Monday — an 80% reduction in the acreage of land that had originally been considered for oil and gas exploration.-- More...