A host of environmental and worker safety rules enacted after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil disaster has made obtaining a lease and drilling permit a multi-year process. Companies must ...
The White House announced today that President Joe Biden is banning new offshore oil and gas drilling along 625 million acres of US coastline, taking the total area of ocean he’s protected to ...
In addition to undoing Biden’s ban on new drilling projects ... One thing the oil industry and supporters of clean energy agree on is that the federal permitting process needs overhauling.
“These are areas where drilling is not popular ... have accused Biden of slow-walking the process to ready those lease sales. The oil and gas industry is likely to challenge a total ban in ...
including reconciliation,” to make the regions that Biden protected accessible for future oil and gas drilling. The reconciliation process would allow the Senate to pass a bill with a simple ...
House Republicans are eying a process called reconciliation to boost oil and gas drilling, and approve specific mining projects, which would only require a simple majority for passage. House ...
However, Trump is expected to rewrite that leasing plan using an administrative process that could take ... respondents backed more offshore oil and gas drilling. The prospect is particularly ...
WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden on Monday took sweeping action to permanently ban offshore oil and gas drilling off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, protecting more than 625 million federal ...
He also invoked the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, saying the low drilling potential of the areas included in the ban did not justify the public health and economic risks ...