Biden OK’d 34% More Oil, Gas Permits Than Trump

 Biden OK’d 34% More Oil, Gas Permits Than Trump

The Biden administration approved 3,557 permits for oil and gas drilling on public lands in its first year; in Trump’s first year the number was 2,658. Nearly 2,000 of the new permits are in New Mexico.

 

“Biden’s runaway drilling approvals are a spectacular failure of climate leadership,” said the Center’s Taylor McKinnon. “Avoiding catastrophic climate change requires ending new fossil fuel extraction, but Biden is racing in the opposite direction.”

 

The Center and 360 other groups petitioned the Biden administration last week to use its executive authority to phase out oil and gas production on public lands and oceans.

--Center for Biological Diversity email of Jan 27 2022