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Climate campaigners and other progressive critics on Friday called out the Biden administration for a new U.S. Interior Department report about leasing public lands and waters to oil and gas companies, slamming its proposals as far too weak given the need to keep fossil fuels in the ground. The ...
The Biden administration on Friday issued a long-awaited blueprint for overhauling oil and gas development on federal lands that includes boosting royalty rates despite high gasoline prices that have spurred demands to accelerate domestic production.
A new Interior Department report about leasing public lands and waters has left climate campaigners fuming.
"Pres. Biden promised to end oil and gas leasing entirely, but the Interior Dept.'s recommendations fall far short of that goal," said Rees.
"Governments finally had the guts to talk openly about fossil fuel dependence, but failed to encode a bold solution in their final outcomes."