Biden administration officials in recent weeks hosted private listening sessions with environmental groups and oil companies ahead of the release of proposed oil and gas regulations that could represent some of the White House’s most lasting steps on public lands to help address climate change.
As states consider their response to the federal government's call for 2-4 million acre-feet of water conservation, tribal groups say their voices aren't being heard.
Three oil and gas moves this week could reveal how President Joe Biden’s Interior Department plans to shape the federal fossil fuels program amid tense political fights over inflationary energy prices.
The Interior Department has issued dozens of oil leases sold in the final weeks of the Trump administration - and could issue over 200 more - drawing the ire of an environmental group that argues the move is a violation of the Biden administration's leasing freeze.
Republican senators cited a study commissioned by the biggest oil and gas trade association in the US in their criticisms of Deb Haaland, Joe Biden's nominee to lead the Department of the Interior, during a confirmation hearing last week.
