Interior’s Haaland Hints at Limits on Fossil Fuel Extraction

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland suggested a sharply limited role for fossil fuel extraction on U.S. federal lands and waters in her most expansive comments yet on the administration’s overhaul of oil and gas leasing.

She said the review would seek to restore balance on uses of some 245 million acres (99 million hectares) of government land by advancing clean energy projects, giving Americans a fair return from activity on the territory and ensuring all stakeholders have a say in what happens there.

“We’re not going to stop gas and oil overnight -- that’s just an impossibility right now,” Haaland said. ...