Almost one million acres off the coast of Alaska will be auctioned off by the Biden administration next month for oil and gas drilling.
This is to comply with a mandate in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) that was part of a compromise imposed by Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) on the White House to gain his support for passage of the bill.
The news of the auctions comes a few weeks after President Joe Biden had an heated exchange with a climate protester, and declared at a rally on Nov. 6 that there would be “no more drilling,”“There is no more drilling. I haven’t formed any new drilling,” he repeated.
