DOI Faces Contested Leasing Review Despite Public Comity On Climate

March 23, 2021
Interior Department (DOI) officials will hear from a range of competing groups later this week about how -- or whether -- they should overhaul the federal oil and gas leasing program to address climate change even as White House officials and industry executives are promising cooperation on the broader climate issue. Environmentalists and industry groups have long been at odds over President Joe Biden’s early executive order to pause new oil and gas leasing while officials review the program. Some...


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