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26 Jan 2021
President Joe Biden is expected to announce sweeping policies on Wednesday to address so-called manmade climate change, including putting millions of acres of federal land off-limits for domestic energy production and elevate environmental concerns to a national security issue.
On his first day in office, Biden signed an executive order to put a 60-day pause on new drilling leases on federal land but has indicated a permanent ban could be on the way.
According to the Congressional Research Service the federal government owns and manages roughly 640 million acres of land in the United States, or roughly 28 percent of the 2.27 billion total land acres.