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Vice President Kamala Harris suggested that she has supported fracking since 2020 during her Thursday evening interview with CNN, but the Biden-Harris administration pursued many aggressive anti-oil and gas policies starting in 2021.
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However, the number of onshore acres available for lease sales, the number of leases issued, and the number of acres issued through those leases all trended down significantly over the years the Biden-Harris administration was in office, according to Bureau of Land Management (BLM) data analyzed by the Western Energy Alliance. Moreover, the Institute for Energy Research has found that the Biden-Harris administration took approximately 250 actions that make it more difficult to produce oil and gas.
For example, Biden signed an executive order that halted new oil and gas leases on federally controlled lands within his first week of taking office, but the courts ultimately intervened to overturn that policy. The administration also issued the skimpiest offshore oil and gas leasing schedule in modern U.S. history in December 2023, while the IRA also contained a new de facto tax on natural gas producers.
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