{"id":1389893,"date":"2022-03-19T12:54:10","date_gmt":"2022-03-19T16:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1389893"},"modified":"2022-03-19T17:16:06","modified_gmt":"2022-03-19T21:16:06","slug":"bidens-dept-interior-agency-is-moving-forward-on-oil-gas-leases-on-public-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-dept-interior-agency-is-moving-forward-on-oil-gas-leases-on-public-land\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden\u2019s Dept. Interior: Agency Is \u2018Moving Forward\u2019 on Oil, Gas Leases on Public Land"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbidens-dept-interior-agency-is-moving-forward-on-oil-gas-leases-on-public-land%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1389893&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">With prices rising at the gas pump \u2014 and a court order that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/louisiana-v-biden-opinion-ca5.pdf\">allows<\/a> climate change consideration when developing the agency\u2019s policies \u2014 President Joe Biden\u2019s Department of the Interior announced on Friday it will resume plans for issuing oil and gas leases on federal land.<\/p>\n<p>Biden had halted any oil and gas development on public land in the early days of his presidency and the issue has been in and out of the courts since.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/louisiana-v-biden-opinion-ca5.pdf\">case<\/a> is the <i>Louisiana v. Biden<\/i>, Case No. 22-30087 in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth District.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The Biden administration was fighting to include a climate change metric in its leasing decisions, while red state governors sued, claiming lease restrictions on federal land hurt American workers and states\u2019 economies.<\/p>\n<p>No announcement is posted on the Dept. of Interior\u2019s official website as of press time, but Interior spokesperson Melissa Schwartz emailed a statement to press contacts following the court ruling issued earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith this ruling, the department continues its planning for responsible oil and gas development on America\u2019s public lands and waters,\u201d Schwartz said in the statement.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe have heard directly from [the Bureau of Land Management (BLM)] that the district court ruling caused them to stop progress because they would have had to change the analysis, but now that\u2019s not the case, they can move forward,\u201d Kathleen Sgamma, president of the Western Energy Alliance, said in an email.<\/p>\n<p>The BLM is the entity at Interior that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blm.gov\/about\">manages<\/a>\u00a0federal lands and resources.<\/p>\n<p>The American Petroleum Institute (API), a trade group that represent the oil and gas industry, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.api.org\/news-policy-and-issues\/news\/2022\/03\/18\/api-welcomes-doi-plan-to-resume-federal-leasing\">sent<\/a> an email<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>to reporters on Friday praising the development.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt a time when the administration and allies around the world are calling for more American energy, we welcome the Department of the Interior\u2019s announcement today and urge the administration to hold onshore lease sales under the Mineral Leasing Act with sufficient acreage and fair terms,\u201d API said. \u201cWe also call on the administration to accelerate the long delayed five-year program for leasing on the Outer Continental Shelf.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The API further pointed out the need for the Biden administration to address issues in its leasing process, such as poor planning and timeliness of processing:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Since 1980, the U.S. Secretary of the Interior has been required to prepare a 5-year program to best meet national energy needs for the 5-year period, including a schedule of oil and gas lease sales and details on the size, timing and location of proposed leasing activity. The next 5-year offshore leasing program must be in place by July 1, 2022, as the current program is scheduled to expire and there will be no opportunities to obtain new leases for federal offshore development. Unfortunately, DOI is well-behind schedule in this multi-year regulatory process and has yet to initiate the third comment period required for completion.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It is unclear how quickly this move will filter down to increase domestic production and benefit American consumers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLeasing is just one step in a process that companies need to take to extract oil and gas from federal lands and waters, so changes in leasing policy are not expected to have significant short-term impacts on fuel availability,\u201d the <em>Hill<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/energy-environment\/598841-interior-continues-oil-and-gas-lease-plans-after-court-reinstates?utm_source=thehill&#038;utm_medium=widgets&#038;utm_campaign=es_recommended_content\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Penny Starr on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PennyStarrDC\">Twitter<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With prices rising at the gas pump \u2014 and a court order that allows climate change consideration when developing the agency\u2019s policies \u2014 President Joe Biden\u2019s Department of the Interior<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1389893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1389893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1389893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1389893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1389893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}