Biden Blames Birds For Backhanded Drilling Ban

The Biden-Harris administration has proposed tighter restrictions on oil and gas drilling on federal land across more than 6,500 square miles in the West to supposedly protect a declining bird species—the Greater Sage Grouse—chicken-sized birds known for an elaborate mating ritual. The Biden-Harris Interior Department aims to strengthen protections for the sage grouse beyond the 2015 measures set […]

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250 Ways Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and the Democrats Have Made it Harder to Produce Oil & Gas

Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and their Democrats have a plan for American energy: make it harder to produce and more expensive to purchase. Since Biden and Harris took office, their administration, and their Democratic allies have taken over 250 actions deliberately designed to make it harder to produce energy here in America.  A list of […]

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Alaska Sues Biden Over War On American Energy

Two lawsuits have been recently filed against the Biden administration over lost leases on Alaska’s North Slope. A coalition of North Slope local and regional governments, tribal governments and Native corporations has sued the Biden administration in the U.S. District Court in Anchorage for prohibitive environmental protections President Biden placed on the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska […]

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House Bills Safeguard Federal Land Production

WASHINGTON DC (05/02/2024) – This week, the House passed a series of bills sponsored by Natural Resources Committee and Western Caucus Members related to resource development and mining on federal lands. AEA included H.R. 6285, “Alaska’s Right to Produce Act of 2023” in its American Energy Scorecard. This legislation affirms that the National Petroleum Reserve […]

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Biden Takes Another Swipe At Offshore Energy

On April 15, Biden’s Interior Department’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) finalized a new rule requiring federal offshore oil and natural gas leaseholders to provide an estimated $6.9 billion in additional financial assurances to cover offshore decommissioning costs. The goal of the financial assurances is to limit the number of abandoned wells in the Gulf of Mexico’s Outer […]

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Biden Axes Auctions For Oil & Gas Development

The Biden administration has been active over the past month in producing policies to put future domestic oil and gas production on public lands in jeopardy. Specifically, he has proposed removal of 13 million acres from the National Petroleum Reserve—Alaska, finalized policies that increase the cost of producing oil and gas on federal land, and […]

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