A bipartisan bill would keep protesters from disrupting offshore oil and gas leasing sales by moving them online within a year, lawmakers said Wednesday.
The Innovation in Offshore Leasing Act would amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to allow the secretary of the Interior to conduct offshore oil and gas lease sales on the Internet. The bill would require the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Management to hold at least one online lease sale within a year of the bill’s passing.
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