Pump jacks extract oil from beneath the ground east of New Town, N.D., on May 19, 2021.
October 29, 2021
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US says oil, gas sales damage climate -- but won't stop them
The Biden administration is planning to sell oil and gas leases on huge tracts of public land in the U.S. West, despite the Interior Department's conclusion that doing so could cost society billions of dollars in climate change impacts.
October 29, 2021 1 p.m.
US to gauge climate damage from federal oil and gas sales
U.S. government regulators for the first time will analyze greenhouse gas emissions from oil and gas drilling on federal lands on a national scale, as the Biden administration steps up efforts to address climate change, the Interior Department said Friday.