After delaying for more than a year, the Biden administration’s Department of Interior finally released its five-year program for federal offshore leasing – a plan that includes the lowest number of auctions in the program’s history – even as prices at the pump continue to rise. The plan is a stark difference from the typical
Read More...More than a year after the Obama administration’s Outer Continental Shelf five-year offshore leasing program expired, the United States still does not have a new plan in place, as required by law. As put plainly by the Chair of the House Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources Pete Stauber (R-MN) during a House Natural Resources
Read More...For the first time in American history, the U.S. Interior Department has allowed the existing Outer Continental Shelf 5-year offshore leasing program to expire without having a new plan in place. In fact, the expiration date came and went without even a draft proposal ready for public and congressional review due to an “unexpected” delay.
Read More...In a letter to Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, a group of Democratic U.S. senators don’t appear to understand the purpose of the five-year outer continental shelf oil and natural gas leasing program that’s required by law. The senators, overwhelmingly representing states with no offshore oil and gas development, are lobbying the administration to leave out
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