Rueters (September 30, 2021) – The United States will hold an auction for drilling rights in the Gulf of Mexico on Nov. 17 to comply with a court order to resume oil and gas lease sales, the Biden administration said on Thursday.
The auction of some 80 million acres offshore will be the first the Interior Department has held under President Joe Biden, who campaigned on a promise to end new federal oil and gas leasing as part of a climate change agenda.
The last such sale in the Gulf of Mexico was in November of 2020.
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