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Montana leaders respond to Biden's pause on oil drilling

by CHAD SOKOL
Daily Inter Lake | January 28, 2021 12:00 AM

President Joe Biden emphasized job creation in the renewable energy sector Wednesday as he signed another slate of executive orders tackling climate change, while Montana's congressional Republicans again lamented that his actions will kill jobs in the fossil fuel industry.

A week after rejoining the international climate treaty known as the Paris Agreement and halting construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, Biden on Wednesday signed orders that establish climate change as a national security priority and pause new oil and gas leases on federal lands and waters...

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