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Biden Administration Opens New Public Lands and Waters to Fossil Fuel Drilling, Disappointing Environmentalists

The president’s campaign promise to end fossil fuel development on public lands was thwarted by US courts, high gas prices and Russia’s domination of western European energy.

By Nicholas Kusnetz

An off-shore oil platform off the coast in Huntington Beach on Sunday, April 5, 2020. Credit: Leonard Ortiz/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images
BP's Deepwater Horizon explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, July 2010/Credit: U.S. C

Why BP and Chevron Are Riskier Bets for Oil Investors

By Jason Plautz

Florida's 3-Way Race for Key Senate Seat Could Hinge on Drilling

By Elizabeth McGowan

Oil Spill Officials Try to Blunt Fears of All-Out Ecological Disaster

By Stacy Feldman

Will the Oil Reach Washington? The Spill's Political Effects

By Dave Levitan

Sen. Landrieu's Plan Would Export Louisiana's Coastal Destruction to Florida

By Sue Sturgis

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