Manchin urges release of Biden DOI drilling report

Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Joe Manchin (D-WV) is urging the Biden administration to quickly issue a long-awaited report on federal oil and gas drilling, even as he is defending the Interior Department’s (DOI) review of the program as not having a significant effect on energy production. Manchin made his comments at a committee hearing to consider the nomination of Laura Daniel-Davis to be DOI’s assistant secretary of Land and Minerals Management. Republicans, however, used the hearing to...