They did try an end to drilling permits, and lost in court — the US court system considers drilling rights to be a property right once you have a lease, so you can’t easily just say no.
They then cut the issuance of leases to the congressionally-mandated minimum.
They did try an end to drilling permits, and lost in court — the US court system considers drilling rights to be a property right once you have a lease, so you can’t easily just say no.
They then cut the issuance of leases to the congressionally-mandated minimum.
numerical non-graph form of the data is here
I’ve never seen this chart. What a story!
Yeah, there has been no press coverage of it whatsoever; there’s one substack post showing a year-old version of it.