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December 1, 2023

Biden to Eschew COP28 as U.S. Opens Another Oil and Gas Leasing Auction
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The White House has confirmed President Biden will not attend the COP28
summit this year but that Vice President Kamala Harris will be in
attendance. This week the Biden administration launched an auction to
sell $3.4 million in oil and gas drilling leases. It's just the first in
a series of auctions that will take place as COP28 unfolds. Over the
next two weeks, the Interior Department will sell off land exploitation
rights in Wyoming, New Mexico, Nevada, North Dakota, Oklahoma and Utah.

This comes as data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration show
the Biden administration has surpassed the Trump administration in crude
oil production, bringing U.S. production higher than at any other time
in history. The Center for Biological Diversity warns that Biden's
fossil fuel projects "threaten to erase the climate emissions progress
from the Inflation Reduction Act."