Oil industry asks Biden for more leasing and fewer rules to lower prices

Published June 14, 2022 12:00am ET



A leading industry group is calling on the Biden administration to shift course and more aggressively support domestic oil and gas production in response to unrelentingly high energy prices.

The American Petroleum Institute sent the White House a list of 10 policies on Tuesday that it argues will encourage production and bring down costs. Topping the list is a request that the administration quickly issue a new five-year plan for the offshore oil and gas leasing program and that it reinstate canceled sales.

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