On Friday, the Interior Department recommended hiking the fees that
companies pay for oil and gas produced on federal lands. It’s part of
the Biden administration's long-awaited review of the process that
determines how the country leases out public land for energy production.
POLITICO’s Ben Lefebvre reports.

 

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