If the Biden administration cites this week’s United Nations climate report as evidence to support keeping federal oil and gas leasing on pause, it may not have the law on its side, industry representatives say.
“Until they are able to convince a majority of lawmakers to change the law, they are still bound by the law,” including the Mineral Leasing Act, said Kathleen Sgamma, president of the Western Energy Alliance, which represents oil and gas producers operating on federal land.
The U.N. report, published Monday by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and ratified by 195 U.N. member countries, ...
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