Biden administration raises costs of public lands drilling

/ Politics / By Judy Trimble

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style="padding-left:25px;padding-right:25px;padding-top:5px;text-align:center;width:100%"> <h2 style="margin:0;color:#555;direction:ltr;font-family:Georgia,Times,'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:38px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:-1px;line-height:120%;text-align:left;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:45.6px"><span class="tinyMce-placeholder">Interior makes it costlier to drill on public lands</span></h2> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="text_block block-3" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0;word-break:break-word"> <tr> <td class="pad" style="padding-bottom:15px;padding-left:25px;padding-right:25px;padding-top:15px"> <div style="font-family:'Times New Roman',Georgia,serif"> <div class="" style="font-size:14px;font-family:TimesNewRoman,'Times New Roman',Times,Beskerville,Georgia,serif;mso-line-height-alt:16.8px;color:#555;line-height:1.2"> <p style="margin:0;font-size:14px;mso-line-height-alt:16.8px"> <span style="color:#505050;"><span style="font-size:22px;">The Interior Department finalized a new federal rule Friday that’s expected to<span style=""> </span><span style="background-color:#fff800;">raise the price for drilling on public lands.</span> </span></span></p> </div> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="image_block block-4" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0"> <tr> <td class="pad" style="padding-bottom:10px;padding-left:25px;padding-right:25px;padding-top:10px;width:100%"> <div class="alignment" align="center" style="line-height:10px"> <div style="max-width:548px"></div> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="text_block block-5" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0;word-break:break-word"> <tr> <td class="pad" 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style="margin:0;font-size:17px;mso-line-height-alt:25.5px"><span style="font-size:17px;">Several of the provisions in the rule were set out in law by the Democrats’ <strong>Inflation Reduction Act</strong>. Such provisions:</span></p> <ul style="line-height:1.5;mso-line-height-alt:25.5px;font-size:17px"> <li> <span style="font-size:17px;"><strong>Increase the government’s share of the profit</strong> of the oil that’s sold after being drilled on federal lands – raising the minimum royalty rate from 12.5 percent to 16.67 percent </span></li> <li><span style="font-size:17px;"><strong>Raise the rents </strong>charged to oil companies for drilling on that land</span></li> <li> <span style="font-size:17px;"><strong>Increase the minimum bid</strong> companies can place to get leases on public lands. </span></li> </ul> <p style="margin:0;font-size:17px;mso-line-height-alt:25.5px">The rule takes the additional step of <strong>increasing the amount companies must pay upfront </strong>as a bond to <strong>ensure that they clean up</strong> their oil and gas wells once the drilling process ends. </p> <p style="margin:0;font-size:17px;mso-line-height-alt:21px"> </p> <p style="margin:0;font-size:17px;mso-line-height-alt:25.5px"><span style="font-size:17px;">The administration described the changes as the first “comprehensive update” to the rules around drilling on federal lands <strong>since 1988</strong>.</span></p> <p style="margin:0;font-size:17px;mso-line-height-alt:21px"> </p> <p style="margin:0;font-size:17px;mso-line-height-alt:25.5px"> <span style="font-size:17px;">The rule comes one day after the administration moved to cut costs for producing renewable energy on public land.</span></p> <p style="margin:0;font-size:17px;mso-line-height-alt:21px"> </p> <p style="margin:0;font-size:17px;mso-line-height-alt:25.5px"> <span style="font-size:17px;"><em>Read more in a full report at<strong> </strong>TheHill.com.</em></span></p> <p style="margin:0;font-size:17px;mso-line-height-alt:21px"> </p> </div> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table class="row row-6" align="center" width="100%" border="0" 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style="margin:0;font-size:14px;mso-line-height-alt:16.8px"><strong><span style="font-size:17px;color:#000000;">Next week </span></strong></p> <ul style="line-height:1.2;mso-line-height-alt:20.4px;font-size:14px"> <li> <span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:17px;">The <strong>House</strong> is slated to vote on six bills aiming to <span style="background-color:#fff800;">block energy efficiency rules</span> for household appliances</span></span></li> </ul> <p style="margin:0;mso-line-height-alt:16.8px"> </p> <p style="margin:0;mso-line-height-alt:20.4px"><strong><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:17px;">Monday</span></span></strong></p> <ul style="line-height:1.2;mso-line-height-alt:20.4px"> <li> <span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:17px;">The <strong>House</strong> is slated to take up bills aimed at <span style="background-color:#fff800;">researching abandoned oil wells and carbon sequestration</span>, as well as oversight for<span style=""> </span><span style="background-color:#fff800;">clean energy demonstration projec<span style="background-color:#fefc1e;">t</span></span><span style="background-color:#fefc1e;">s</span> receiving federal funds</span></span></li> </ul> </div> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="text_block block-3" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0;word-break:break-word"> <tr> <td class="pad" style="padding-bottom:10px;padding-left:25px;padding-right:25px;padding-top:10px"> <div style="font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif"> <div class="" style="font-size:12px;font-family:Georgia,Times,'Times New Roman',serif;mso-line-height-alt:14.399999999999999px;color:#000;line-height:1.2"> <p style="margin:0;mso-line-height-alt:14.399999999999999px"> </p> <p style="margin:0;mso-line-height-alt:14.399999999999999px"><span style="font-size:17px;"> <strong>Tuesday</strong></span></p> <ul style="line-height:1.2;mso-line-height-alt:20.4px;font-size:17px"> <li style="text-align:left"> <p style="margin:0;font-size:17px;mso-line-height-alt:20.4px"><span style="font-size:17px;">Energy Secretary <span style="background-color:#fff800;">Jennifer Granholm</span> is slated to appear before the </span></p> <p style="margin:0;mso-line-height-alt:20.4px"> <strong>Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee</strong> for a hearing on the department’s budget </p> </li> <li style="text-align:left"> <p style="margin:0;font-size:17px;mso-line-height-alt:20.4px"> <span style="background-color:#fff800;">Forest Service Chief Randy Moore</span> will testify before the <strong>House Appropriations Committee</strong> in a hearing on the agency’s budget</p> <p style="margin:0;font-size:17px;mso-line-height-alt:14.399999999999999px"> </p> </li> <li style="text-align:left"> <p style="margin:0;mso-line-height-alt:20.4px">The <strong>House Natural Resources Committee</strong> will mark up a series of bills including the <span style="background-color:#fff800;">America’s Wildlife Habitat Conservation Act</span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin:0;mso-line-height-alt:20.4px"> <span style="font-size:17px;"><strong style="background-color:transparent">Wednesday</strong></span></p> <p style="margin:0;mso-line-height-alt:14.399999999999999px"> </p> <ul style="line-height:1.2;mso-line-height-alt:20.4px;font-size:17px"> <li>Biden officials with the<span style=""> </span><span style="background-color:#fff800;">Bureau of Reclamation and Army Corps of Engineers</span> will testify before the <strong>House Appropriations Committee </strong>during a budget hearing</li> </ul> <p style="margin:0;mso-line-height-alt:14.399999999999999px"> </p> <ul style="line-height:1.2;mso-line-height-alt:20.4px;font-size:17px"> <li> The <strong>House Natural Resources Committee</strong> will hold a legislative hearing on a <span style="background-color:#fefc1e;">f</span><span style="background-color:#fff800;">orest management bill</span> </li> </ul> <p style="margin:0;mso-line-height-alt:20.4px"><span style="font-size:17px;"><strong>Thursday</strong></span></p> <ul style="line-height:1.2;mso-line-height-alt:20.4px;font-size:17px"> <li style="text-align:left"> <p style="margin:0;mso-line-height-alt:20.4px"> The <strong>House Oversight Committee</strong> will hold a hearing on the Biden administration’s <span style="background-color:#fff800;">pause on new LNG export terminals</span>. The head of the Energy Department’s Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management is slated to appear.</p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin:0;mso-line-height-alt:14.399999999999999px"> </p> <ul style="line-height:1.2;mso-line-height-alt:20.4px;font-size:17px"> <li style="text-align:left"> The <strong>House Natural Resources Committee </strong>will hold a hearing titled Assessing Solutions to Secure America’s <span style="background-color:#fff800;">Offshore Energy</span><span style=""> </span>Future.</li> </ul> </div> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table class="row row-20" align="center" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0;background-color:#f8eee1"> <tbody> <tr> <td> <table class="row-content stack" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" 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#000;padding-bottom:10px;vertical-align:top;border-top:0"> <table class="text_block block-1" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0;word-break:break-word"> <tr> <td class="pad" style="padding-bottom:10px;padding-right:15px;padding-top:5px"> <div style="font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif"> <div class="" style="font-size:12px;font-family:Georgia,Times,'Times New Roman',serif;mso-line-height-alt:14.399999999999999px;color:#000;line-height:1.2"> <ul style="line-height:1.2;mso-line-height-alt:14.399999999999999px;font-size:17px"> <li style="text-align:left"> <p style="margin:0;mso-line-height-alt:20.4px"> Maine Is a Warning for America’s <span style="background-color:#fefc1e;">PFAS Future</span> (The Atlantic)</p> </li> <li style="text-align:left"> <p style="margin:0;mso-line-height-alt:20.4px"> Climate target organisation faces staff revolt over <span style="background-color:#fefc1e;">carbon-offsetting plan</span> (The Guardian)</p> <p style="margin:0;mso-line-height-alt:14.399999999999999px"> </p> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table class="row row-23" align="center" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0;background-color:#f8eee1"> <tbody> <tr> <td> <table class="row-content stack" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0;background-color:#fff;border-left:1px solid #000;border-radius:0;border-right:1px solid #000;border-top:1px solid #000;color:#000;width:600px;margin:0 auto" width="600.00"> <tbody> <tr> <td class="column column-1" width="100%" style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0;font-weight:400;text-align:left;border-top:10px solid transparent;padding-top:5px;vertical-align:top;border-right:0;border-bottom:0;border-left:0"> <table class="text_block block-1" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0;word-break:break-word"> <tr> <td class="pad" style="padding-bottom:10px;padding-left:25px;padding-right:30px;padding-top:20px"> <div style="font-family:'Arial Black',Arial,sans-serif"> <div class="" style="font-size:14px;font-family:'Arial Black',Arial,sans-serif;mso-line-height-alt:16.8px;color:#555;line-height:1.2"> <p style="margin:0;font-size:14px;mso-line-height-alt:16.8px"><span style="background-color:#e0eee0;color:#407045;"><strong><span style="font-size:18px;background-color:#e0eee0;"><span style=""><span style="">What Others are <span style="background-color:#e0eee0;">Reading</span> </span></span></span></strong></span> </p> </div> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="text_block block-2" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0;word-break:break-word"> <tr> <td class="pad" style="padding-bottom:15px;padding-left:25px;padding-right:15px;padding-top:10px"> <div style="font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif"> <div class="" style="font-size:14px;font-family:Georgia,Times,'Times New Roman',serif;mso-line-height-alt:16.8px;color:#0068a5;line-height:1.2"> <p style="margin:0;font-size:14px;mso-line-height-alt:16.8px"><em><span style="font-size:18px;">Two key stories on The Hill right now:</span></em></p> </div> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table class="row row-27" align="center" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0;background-color:#407045"> <tbody> <tr> <td> <table class="row-content stack" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" 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