Biden Takes Another Swipe At Offshore Energy

On April 15, Biden’s Interior Department’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) finalized a new rule requiring federal offshore oil and natural gas leaseholders to provide an estimated $6.9 billion in additional financial assurances to cover offshore decommissioning costs. The goal of the financial assurances is to limit the number of abandoned wells in the Gulf of Mexico’s Outer […]

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Biden Axes Auctions For Oil & Gas Development

The Biden administration has been active over the past month in producing policies to put future domestic oil and gas production on public lands in jeopardy. Specifically, he has proposed removal of 13 million acres from the National Petroleum Reserve—Alaska, finalized policies that increase the cost of producing oil and gas on federal land, and […]

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The Unregulated Podcast #143: In the Community

On this episode of The Unregulated Podcast Tom Pyle and Mike McKenna discuss the latest “rebrand” for the green movement, Biden’s most recent moves against domestic energy and mineral production, and some fun headlines from a busy week in Washington. Links: Renewable Energy Still King of Pork No New Drilling: The Courts Overruled Me Biden: […]

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Biden Goes After American Energy Producers By Raising Fees 20-Fold

The Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has proposed increasing royalty rates for oil and natural gas drilling on federal lands from 12.5 percent to 16.67 percent—about a third higher–and raising the minimum bond paid upon purchasing an individual drilling lease from $10,000 to $150,000. To top it off, they propose raising the minimum bond required […]

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