The Biden administration said Friday it would resume plans for oil and gas drilling on federal lands and waters after an appeals court ruled to allow the use of an approximately fivefold higher “social cost of carbon” value in evaluating permits, according to reports.
New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says the data “speaks for itself” that the fossil fuel industry is directly tied to the disappearance and murder of indigenous women.
Rep. Don Young, dean of the U.S. House of Representatives and one of Congress’s more colorful characters, died Friday on his way back home to Alaska, his office announced. He was 88.
Rep. Frank Pallone, D-N.J., chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, is asking executives from six oil companies to testify about surging gas prices.