{"id":1942904,"date":"2023-06-02T14:56:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T18:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-closes-off-more-land-to-oil-and-gas-drilling-with-new-20-year-moratorium\/"},"modified":"2023-06-02T14:58:46","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T18:58:46","slug":"biden-admin-closes-off-more-land-to-oil-and-gas-drilling-with-new-20-year-moratorium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-closes-off-more-land-to-oil-and-gas-drilling-with-new-20-year-moratorium\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden closes more land to oil and gas drilling with 20-year ban."},"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-admin-closes-off-more-land-to-oil-and-gas-drilling-with-new-20-year-moratorium%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=1942904&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--><h2>Biden Administration Orders 20-Year Ban on New Oil and Gas Drilling Leases Near Chaco Culture National Historical Park<\/h2>\n<p>The Biden administration has ordered a 20-year ban on new oil and gas drilling leases within 10 miles of the Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico, according to multiple reports. The moratorium is a long-sought goal of several local politicians, conservation groups, and Native American tribes that want to preserve the centuries-old Pueblo ruins located there.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">By protecting Chaco Canyon, a sacred place that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-blocks-oil-gas-leases-in-large-new-mexico-region-at-request-of-native-american-tribes\/\" title=\"Biden Blocks Oil, Gas Leases In Large New Mexico Region At Request Of Native American Tribes\">holds deep meaning<\/a> for the Indigenous peoples whose ancestors have called this place home since time immemorial, we are living up to our commitments to Indian Country. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/k7N4AWWeBz\">pic.twitter.com\/k7N4AWWeBz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Secretary Deb Haaland (@SecDebHaaland) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SecDebHaaland\/status\/1664634023082065922?\">June 2, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>However, some tribes have opposed the ban for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-closes-off-more-land-to-oil-and-gas-drilling-with-new-20-year-moratorium\/\" title=\"Biden closes more land to oil and gas drilling with 20-year ban.\">limiting future economic opportunities<\/a>. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, herself a New Mexican and the nation\u2019s first Native American Cabinet member, was directly lobbied to end drilling near the park by members of the Pueblo Action Alliance, a Native American activism organization to which her daughter Somah belongs, with the group\u2019s executive director affectionately referring to her as \u201cAuntie Deb\u201d in an interview after the fact.<\/p>\n<h3>Efforts to Protect Chaco Landscape Have Been Ongoing for Decades<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cEfforts to protect the Chaco landscape have been ongoing for decades, as Tribal communities have raised concerns about the impacts that new development would have on areas of deep cultural connection,\u201d said Haaland in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The move is the administration\u2019s latest toward Biden\u2019s goal of conserving at least 30 percent of federal lands and waters by 2030. The Biden administration recently blocked large swathes of Alaska from being eligible for drilling. Meanwhile, the Interior Department proposed rules that would allow conservation groups to lease lands for restoration purposes, similar to how oil and gas companies can lease land for drilling operations.<\/p>\n<h3>About the Daily Caller News Foundation<\/h3>\n<p>All content created by the Daily Caller News Foundation, an independent and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-weighs-in-on-deadly-subway-clash-after-desantis-calls-marine-a-good-samaritan\/\" title=\"Trump Weighs In on Deadly Subway Clash After DeSantis Calls Marine a 'Good Samaritan'\">nonpartisan newswire service<\/a>, is available without charge to any <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/union-membership-plummets-to-record-low\/\" title=\"Union Membership Plummets to Record Low\">legitimate news publisher<\/a> that can provide a large audience. All republished articles must include our logo, our reporter\u2019s byline, and their DCNF affiliation. For any questions about our guidelines or partnering with us, please contact licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Takeaways:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Biden administration has ordered a 20-year ban on new oil and gas drilling leases within 10 miles of the Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico.<\/li>\n<li>The moratorium is a long-sought goal of several local politicians, conservation groups, and Native American tribes that want to preserve the centuries-old Pueblo ruins located there.<\/li>\n<li>Interior Secretary Deb Haaland was directly lobbied to end drilling near the park by members of the Pueblo Action Alliance, a Native American activism organization to which her daughter Somah belongs.<\/li>\n<li>The move is the administration\u2019s latest toward Biden\u2019s goal of conserving at least 30 percent of federal lands and waters by 2030.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration has imposed a 20-year ban on new oil and gas drilling leases within 10 miles of the Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico. The Department of Interior had been considering the moratorium since November 2021. This move is a victory for local groups who have been pushing for the ban.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1181,"featured_media":1942905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[9824,7008,3620,5791,20004,7536,12948,7393],"class_list":["post-1942904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily","tag-20-year","tag-ban","tag-biden","tag-closes","tag-drilling","tag-gas","tag-land","tag-oil"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942904","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\/1181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1942904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1942905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1942904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1942904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1942904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}