Chuck Grassley teams with Jacky Rosen on bill to make oil companies pay up for public lands drilling

Published March 10, 2021 2:01pm ET



Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley and Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen have teamed up on legislation to make oil and gas drillers pay more for extracting fossil fuels on land controlled by the federal government.

The Fair Returns for Public Lands Act, introduced on Wednesday, would increase the royalty rate that companies pay to the government to drill on public onshore lands for the first time since the 1920s.

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