Friends of the Earth Slams Climate Omission in New Oil and Gas Leasing Rule
July 21, 2023
July 21, 2023
WASHINGTON, July 21 (TNStalk) -- Friends of the Earth issued the following statement on July 20, 2023:
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Today, the Biden Administration's Bureau of Land Management announced a new rulemaking to overhaul public lands leasing. The rule neglects to address the climate impacts of oil and gas drilling, despite a quarter of U.S. climate emissions coming from the federal leasing program. This is the latest in a long string of failures by the Administration to make go . . .
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Today, the Biden Administration's Bureau of Land Management announced a new rulemaking to overhaul public lands leasing. The rule neglects to address the climate impacts of oil and gas drilling, despite a quarter of U.S. climate emissions coming from the federal leasing program. This is the latest in a long string of failures by the Administration to make go . . .