White House restarting federal oil, gas lease sales next week

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...