“Yet the federal government is focused on trying to stop our ability to produce oil and gas. Experts observed that the timing of the announcement to suspend the drilling leases in the refuge, coming on the heels of the fossil-fuel friendly actions by the administration, could be designed to appease Mr. Biden’s environmental critics. The administration has only committed to reviewing the Trump leases, not canceling them. If it determines that the leases were granted illegally, it could then have legal grounds to cancel them. “People knew that it was vulnerable and that they couldn’t count on the Trump leases sticking.

Source: New York Times June 01, 2021 20:43 UTC