{"id":298499,"date":"2021-07-13T23:44:24","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T20:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/us-drilling-approvals-increase-despite-biden-climate-pledge-2\/"},"modified":"2021-07-13T23:44:24","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T20:44:24","slug":"us-drilling-approvals-increase-despite-biden-climate-pledge-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/us-drilling-approvals-increase-despite-biden-climate-pledge-2\/","title":{"rendered":"#US drilling approvals increase despite Biden climate pledge"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#US drilling app<\/a>rovals increase despite Biden climate pledge<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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BILLINGS, Mont. \u2014 Approvals for companies to drill for oil and gas on U.S. public lands are on pace this year to reach their highest level since George W. Bush was president, underscoring President Joe Biden\u2019s reluctance to more forcefully curb petroleum production in the face of industry and Republican resistance.<\/p>\n

The Interior Department approved about 2,500 permits to drill on public and tribal lands in the first six months of the year, according to an Associated Press analysis of government data. That includes more than 2,100 drilling approvals since Biden took office January 20.<\/p>\n

New Mexico and Wyoming had the largest number of approvals. Montana, Colorado and Utah had hundreds each.<\/p>\n

Biden campaigned last year on pledges to\u00a0end new drilling on federal lands\u00a0<\/a>to rein in climate-changing emissions. His pick to oversee those lands, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, adamantly opposed drilling on federal lands while in Congress and co-sponsored the liberal Green New Deal.<\/p>\n

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Chart shows approvals for companies to drill for oil and gas on U.S. public and tribal lands.<\/figcaption>
Associated Press<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At one of the Democratic primary debates, Biden misspoke when he addressed the subject, saying that if he became president, there would be \u201cno more \u2014 no new \u2014 fracking.\u201d Biden\u2019s campaign quickly corrected his mistake.<\/p>\n

Biden\u2019s actual position, which he frequently states, is that he would ban new gas and oil permits \u2014 including fracking \u2014 on federal lands only. The vast majority of oil and gas does not come from federal lands.<\/p>\n

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Pumpjacks work in a field near Lovington, N.M. The Biden administration has approved thousands of drilling permits since taking office despite a campaign pledge to end fracking on federal land.<\/figcaption>
AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He\u2019s hewed closely to that middle-of-the-road position, going so far as to tell an anti-fracking activist that he \u201cought to vote for somebody else\u201d if he was in a hurry to see fracking abolished.<\/p>\n

Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, opened up a yearslong oil and gas boom in parts of the Southwest, High Plains and Northeast \u2014 including battleground Pennsylvania. The technique went into widespread use during the Obama-Biden administration.<\/p>\n

Some liberal Democrats wish Biden were taking a tougher line against fracking now. But he isn\u2019t.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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