Between approval for wells and drilling is years. (sometimes 5-10)
It would not be affecting drilling yet.
Initially... in fact he angered the left
New Data: Biden’s First Year Drilling Permitting Stomps Trump’s By 34%
Thousands of Permits OK’d Despite President’s Authority to End Drilling by 2035
WASHINGTON—
New federal data shows the Biden administration approved 3,557 permits for oil and gas drilling on public lands in its first year, far outpacing the Trump administration’s first-year total of 2,658.
Nearly 2,000 of the drilling permits were approved on public lands administered by the
Bureau of Land Management’s New Mexico office, followed by 843 in Wyoming, 285 in Montana and North Dakota, and 191 in Utah. In California, the Biden administration approved 187 permits — more than twice the 71 drilling permits Trump approved in that state in his first year.
“Biden’s runaway drilling approvals are a spectacular failure of climate leadership,” said Taylor McKinnon at the Center for Biological Diversity. “Avoiding catastrophic climate change requires ending new fossil fuel extraction, but Biden is racing in the opposite direction.”
On Wednesday more than 360 climate, conservation, Indigenous, environmental justice and community groups
petitioned the Biden administration to use its executive authority to phase out oil and gas production on public lands and oceans.
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Center for Biological Diversity: Thousands of Permits OK’d Despite President’s Authority to End Drilling by 2035
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