The Biden administration said that it would reduce the amount of land it would sell oil and gas leases on by 80% and increase royalty rates for drillers in a late Good Friday announcement.
“While we’re glad to see [the Bureau of Land Management] is finally going to announce a sale, the extreme reduction of acreage by 80%, after a year and a quarter without a single sale, is unwarranted and does nothing to show that the administration takes high energy prices seriously,” Western Energy Alliance President Kathleen Sgamma said in a statement.
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