A few weeks after allowing the controversial Willow oil drilling project in Alaska to go forward, the Biden administration is auctioning off more than 73 million acres of waters in the Gulf of Mexico to offshore oil and gas drilling
It could be the first Gulf of Mexico lease sale under the Biden administration that actually results in new drilling, after previous auctions were embroiled in legal challenges and delays. On Wednesday, the Interior Department’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management will hold a lease sale for an area that’s more than double the size of the Willow Project in acreage.
” Difficult politics on leasing Though Wednesday’s drilling auction was not the first under the Biden administration, it could be the first to stick. It follows a messy and protracted legal battle over another 80-million-acre lease sale it offered in 2021, after a Louisiana judge tossed Biden’s attempt to ban new oil and gas leasing on federal land and water. Interior ultimately canceled those leases, citing the delays due to “conflicting court rulings.
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