The Trump administration is reopening oil and gas leases on hundreds of millions of acres of federal land and waters locked by the Biden administration. [emphasis, links added]
In a series of orders Monday night, Home Secretary Doug Burgum (Alaskan National Wildlife Sanctuary in Alaska and the state’s 23 million acres of national oil reserves.
These actions, while expected, show a sudden change in how the Interior Department will handle oil and gas rental issues during the Trump administration.
Under Biden-era Home Secretary Deb Haaland, the agency has adopted an aggressive climate strategy that severely limits oil and gas drilling and mining while expanding green energy in public land and waters. Production.
“We are committed to collaborative efforts to unlock the full potential of the U.S. in energy dominance and economic development to make life more affordable for every American family while showing the world American natural resources,” Burgum said in a statement. and the power of innovation.”
Burgum releases a six-pillar plan to implement President Donald Trump’s energy agenda: Resolving national energy emergency, releasing U.S. energy, providing emergency price releases for American households, revoking offshore drilling by former President Joe Biden bans, rolling back regulations and release Alaska resources potentially.
As part of the second pillar of unleashing U.S. energy, the Interior Department said it would encourage exploration and production on federal land and waters.
Burgum ordered a review of the Biden administration's five-year offshore drilling plan, which includes the fewest rental sales in history and the cancellation of the Biden administration's oil leasing.
The department also said it would Seeking to limit foreign impact on major industries by significantly expanding mining of non-fuel minerals, including rare earth minerals.
Shortly after leaving the office, the Department of the Interior’s Land Administration issued a 20-year mining ban on 20,510 acres of South Dakota land, home to large, critical mineral deposits that are crucial to energy technology.
The agency similarly blocked mining in larger areas of Minnesota and Alaska, which are also home to some of the world’s richest critical mineral deposits, with activists opposing environmental issues.
As part of the department’s new efforts to backfire the regulations, The Home Office will cancel at least 10 existing regulations for each new regulations and “offset the cost of new regulations by removing previous regulations.”
“These actions will align U.S. energy policy with U.S. current and future needs,” Erik Milito, president of the National Marine Industry Association, said Tuesday.
“They will increase energy security, strengthen national defense, develop our economy, and maintain energy for every household and business, thereby reducing dependence on foreign opponents.”
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