The Biden administration’s support for more oil and gas production to lower soaring energy prices has angered key environmentalist constituencies and sent officials away to insist that they aren’t compromising their green agenda.

The administration maintains that more domestic oil production is necessary to help bring down gasoline prices, and it has embraced liquefied natural gas as a salve to Europe’s energy crisis in the face of the war in Ukraine, despite previously putting new limits on the fossil fuel industry as a means of tempering climate change.