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Turbines operate at the Block Island Wind Farm, Dec. 7, 2023, off the coast of Block Island, R.I., during a tour organized by Orsted. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson, File)

Maryland, Delaware businesses sue feds over offshore wind project

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

FILE - Pump jacks work in a field near Lovington, N.M., April 24, 2015. Oil and gas companies will have to pay more to drill on public lands and satisfy stronger requirements to clean up old or abandoned wells under a final rule issued Friday, April 12, 2024, by the Biden administration. The Interior Department rule does not go so far as to prohibit new oil and gas leasing on public lands, as many environmental groups have urged and as President Joe Biden promised during the 2020 campaign. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Oil and gas companies must pay more to drill on public lands under new Biden administration rule

By Matthew Daly - Associated Press

A flare to burn methane from oil production is seen on a well pad near Watford City, N.D., on Aug. 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)

Inside the secret struggle to find ‘official rationale’ for Biden’s oil, gas leasing halt

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Illustration on Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and domestic energy by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Interior Department’s latest attack on domestic energy

By Curtis Schube

Tommy Beaudreau, Deputy Secretary of the Interior, speaks during a news conference on Lake Mead at Hoover Dam, Tuesday, April 11, 2023, near Boulder City, Nev. The Biden administration on Tuesday released an environmental analysis of competing plans for how Western states and tribes reliant on the dwindling Colorado River should cut their use. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Interior’s No. 2 official leaving contentious role overseeing Biden energy policies

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

A flare to burn methane from oil production is seen on a well pad near Watford City, N.D., on Aug. 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)

New rules for oil and gas leasing raise rates energy companies pay to drill on public lands

By Matthew Daly - Associated Press

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland listens to criticism from Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., as she testifies on President Joe Biden's budget request for 2024, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, May 2, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland dogged by ethics questions over daughter’s anti-drilling activism

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

'You Report To Me' by David Berhardt (book cover)

BOOK REVIEW: ‘You Report to Me: Accountability for the Failing Administrative State’

By William Perry Pendley

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., talks to The Associated Press about her visit to Ukraine a year ago and her time as the Democratic leader in the House, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, April 19, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Pelosi’s pork: Park Service siphoned $200 million to former speaker’s pet project

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Supporters say a major oil project President Joe Biden is OK'ing on Alaska’s petroleum-rich North Slope represents an economic lifeline for Indigenous communities while environmentalists say it runs counter to his climate goals.

Alaska’s Willow oil project is controversial. Here’s why.

By Becky Bohrer, Matthew Brown and Matthew Daly - Associated Press

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, speaks during a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing on the budget request for fiscal year 2023 for the Department of the Interior, May 19, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Haaland broke her leg during a hike in Shenandoah National Park Sunday, but is recovering, the Interior Department says. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

Biden Cabinet member’s report of nearly zero assets spurs call for ethics audit

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

An oil drilling rig is pictured at sunset, March 7, 2022, in El Reno, Okla. The Biden administration has considerably slowed its approval of new oil and natural gas drilling leases on public lands, despite facing pressure to more aggressively urge fossil fuel companies to increase their production in the face of high domestic energy prices. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)

Biden administration hedges on resuming oil-and-gas leasing despite court ruling

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

A man wears a face mark as he fishes near docked oil drilling platforms, on May 8, 2020, in Port Aransas, Texas. A federal court has rejected a proposed lease auction for offshore oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, saying the Biden administration failed to conduct a proper environmental review. The decision on Jan. 27, 2022, by U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras sends the proposed lease sale back to the Interior Department to decide next steps. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Federal judge tosses Biden administration’s oil lease sale in Gulf of Mexico

By Matthew Daly - Associated Press

In this Sept. 18, 2010, file photo, rhe Development Driller III, which drilled the relief well and pumped the cement to seal the Macondo well, the source of the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion and oil spill, is seen in the Gulf Of Mexico, off the coast of Louisiana. The Trump administration on Thursday, May 2, 2019, moved to ease safety regulations adopted after the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon blowout, the worst offshore oil disaster in U.S. history that killed nearly a dozen people. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

Climate groups sue after Biden administration revives Trump-era drilling leases

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Tracy Stone-Manning listens during a confirmation hearing for her to be the director of the Bureau of Land Management, during a hearing of the Senate Energy and National Resources Committee on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, June 8, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) **FILE**

Barrasso seeks to delay Tracy Stone-Manning vote over $100,000 loan from developer

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

The Biden administration froze oil exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, citing the need for additional environmental analysis, after Congress approved in 2017 leasing on 1.9 million acres of the 19.3-million-acre refuge on Alaska's North Slope. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer, File)

‘Punch in the gut’: Alaska sues Biden administration for stalling reopening of federal lands

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

In this April 24, 2015, photo, pumpjacks work in a field in the Permian Basin near Lovington, N.M. Environmentalists and Native American activists say the Biden administration's review of the federal oil and gas leasing program should result in more protections for an area of northwestern New Mexico that's considered sacred. They have cited concerns about air pollution from venting and flaring at natural gas collection and processing sites, wastewater leaks and unchecked development in southeastern New Mexico's share of the Permian Basin. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) **FILE**

Judge rejects Biden attempt to pause oil, gas leases on federal lands

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Secretary of the Interior Secretary Deb Haaland attends a Cabinet meeting with President Joe Biden in the East Room of the White House, Thursday, April 1, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden taps ex-Obama official as Interior Department deputy

By MATTHEW DALY - Associated Press

In this Friday, May 27, 2016, photo, a pump jack works off state highway 119 near Firestone, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File) **FILE**

Biden names Tommy Beaudreau, energy lawyer, for Interior deputy secretary

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

In this Jan. 8, 2021, file photo President-elect Joe Biden speaks during an event at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Del. When Biden takes office later this month, his biggest challenge may be navigating a deeply divided country past the turmoil of the Trump era. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Thirteen states sue to squelch ‘Biden ban’ on oil-and-gas leasing

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times