By Ella Nilsen, CNN One of President Joe Biden’s boldest environmental campaign promises was to ban new oil and natural gas leasing on public land and water. But on Wednesday his administration will open more than 80 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico to auction for drilling.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The U.S. Interior Department auctioned hundreds of oil and gas leases from federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday in the first such sale
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Energy companies including Shell, BP, Chevron and ExxonMobil offered a combined $192 million for drilling rights on federal oil and gas reserves in the Gulf of
Biden campaigned on pledges to end drilling on federally owned lands and waters but attorneys general from several states successfully sued to lift the suspension of leases.
The Biden administration on Wednesday auctioned off millions of acres in the Gulf of Mexico for oil and gas drilling, its first lease sale since taking office.
President Biden campaigned on vows to end drilling on public land and waters, but the leases mean production could go past 2030, when scientists say the world needs to cut greenhouse gas emissions to avoid a climate catastrophe.
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