{"id":1612774,"date":"2022-08-18T10:19:21","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T14:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1612774"},"modified":"2022-08-18T10:19:40","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T14:19:40","slug":"biden-revives-biggest-offshore-oil-and-gas-lease-sale-in-americas-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-revives-biggest-offshore-oil-and-gas-lease-sale-in-americas-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Revives Biggest Offshore Oil and Gas Lease Sale in America\u2019s History"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fbiden-revives-biggest-offshore-oil-and-gas-lease-sale-in-americas-history%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=1612774&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--><p>When President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-inflation-reduction-act\">Inflation Reduction Act<\/a> into law, his signature opened the door to reinstating the largest oil and gas lease sale in U.S. history that was blocked by a court due to climate impact concerns.<\/p>\n<p>The Inflation Reduction Act includes provisions that direct spending, tax credits, and loans to bolster technologies like solar panels and equipment to cut pollution at coal and gas-powered power plants.<\/p>\n<p>But the bill also contains a provision that reinstates the previously halted Lease Sale 257, the biggest offshore oil and gas lease in U.S. history, spanning nearly 81 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Lease Sale 257, which sold at auction for $192 million in March 2019, was challenged by environmental groups, who argued that the sale violated federal law by relying on an inadequate environmental impact review that failed to accurately consider greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Rudolph Contreras of the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia agreed,\u00a0ruling in January 2022 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.govinfo.gov\/content\/pkg\/USCOURTS-dcd-1_21-cv-02317\/pdf\/USCOURTS-dcd-1_21-cv-02317-1.pdf\">pdf<\/a>) that\u00a0the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management\u2019s (BOEM) decision to proceed with the sale was \u201carbitrary and capricious.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Contreras\u2019 ruling blocked the lease and the Biden administration did not appeal. But by signing the Inflation Reduction Act into law, Biden has effectively revived the lease.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLease Sale 257 is reinstated and high bidders must get their lease,\u201d the National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA), a group that serves the offshore oil, gas, and wind industries,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.noia.org\/ira-energy-provisions-support-offshore-oil-gas-wind-carbon-sequestration\/\">said in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>NOIA also pointed to a handful of other lease sales that now must be held with the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) after the Biden administration canceled them in May, when prices at the pump were soaring to record highs.<\/p>\n<p>The association\u2019s chief generally gave a passing grade to the bill for putting in place what he<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law, his signature opened the door to reinstating the largest oil and gas lease sale in U.S. history that was blocked by a court due to climate impact concerns. 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