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Congressman Jared Huffman (D-San Rafael) and Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) today introduced the West Coast Ocean Protection Act to permanently ban oil and gas drilling in federal waters off the coast of California, Oregon and Washington.

The Biden administration reinstated $190 million in bids from fossil fuel companies for an oil-and-gas lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico.

By Ari Natter (Bloomberg) — The Biden administration opened the door to selling new oil and gas drilling leases in the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska in a move likely to...

The Trump Administration has rolled back a policy encouraging the National Park Service to ban the sale of bottled water in U.S. national parks.

U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, introduced the Clean Energy Minerals Reform Act, legislation to modernize the nation's severely antiquated hardrock mining law.

Democrats and advocates alike fear criticizing the senator in the hope of reaching a deal.

"Coal is killing our climate, yet the Biden administration is defending it," one environmental advocate said.

The Biden administration's "high level blueprint" for revamping the federal oil and gas program, published over the Thanksgiving holiday, is either

New proposals by the Biden administration, Congress could have a major impact on the mainstay of Louisiana, Houma-Thibodauxs economies: oil and gas.

However, the report largely ignores climate change issues and does not recommend stopping leasing federal lands to gas and oil drillers, something President Biden campaigned on.