Interior Department kicks off a fundamental review of the oil and gas leasing program for federal lands. If you are pro oil and gas, or critical of it, hard to not agree this program needs to be reexamined. Most of leased land is banked by speculators, not really used to produce 
We wrote about this in 2018. Leases on federal land for energy production at times being given away for pennies, and then sat on by speculators. With @HirokoTabuchi nytimes.com/2018/11/27/bus…
I went to a Houston industry conference in 2018 where land speculators were RESELLING leases they had bought from the federal government. You have to wonder. Why are they profiting by re-selling them?
We also did this piece in 2018, although this was before the dip in demand from the pandemic. Bottom line, these issues are still there. These stories could be republished today & still be relevant as Biden reexamines these programs. with @HirokoTabuchi nytimes.com/2018/10/27/cli…
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