'Avoiding catastrophic climate change requires ending new fossil fuel extraction,' said publiccarbon of the CenterForBioDiv, 'but Biden is racing in the opposite direction.'
to phase out federal leasing for fossil fuel extraction, his administration approved more permits for oil and gas drilling on public lands in its first year than the Trump administration did in 2017.That's according to the Center for Biological Diversity's new analysis of
released Friday, which shows that the Biden White House rubber-stamped 3,557 permits for oil and gas drilling on public lands in 2021—a 34% increase over former President Donald Trump's administration, which greenlit 2,658 drilling permits in its first year.approved for public lands in New Mexico, followed by 843 in Wyoming, 285 in Montana and North Dakota, and 191 in Utah. In California, Biden signed off on 187 permits—more than twice as many as the 71 that Trump approved for drilling on the Golden State's public lands during his first year in office.
"Biden's runaway drilling approvals are a spectacular failure of climate leadership," the Center for Biological Diversity's Taylor McKinnon Friday in a statement."Avoiding catastrophic climate change requires ending new fossil fuel extraction, but Biden is racing in the opposite direction."
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