President Joe Biden is holding up new leases to drill on federal land. Heritage experts say the climate impacts of oil and gas production on federal lands, and of energy production in the United States broadly, are negligible. “Blocking energy development on federal lands and increasing regulations on existing wells would increase costs and strip opportunities away from businesses for minimal environmental benefit. Western states, Gulf Coast states, and Alaska, who have long viewed energy development as an integral part of their states’ economy and budget, would suffer,” say report author Nick Loris and Heritage expert Katie Tubb.
