A coalition of GOP lawmakers is demanding answers from a top Biden official after the administration quietly admitted its oft-used fossil fuel permitting figure was inaccurate.
Alex Epstein, an advocate for expanding fossil fuels, joins 'Fox & Friends Weekend' to discuss China's energy use and his heated interaction with Rep. Cori Bush during a House hearing.A group of Republican senators is pressing the Biden administration to explain its recent downward revision of theSen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla.,
and joined by Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., John Hoeven, R-N.D., James Lankford, R-Okla., Mike Braun, R-Ind., and James Risch, R-Idaho – penned a letter Wednesday to Bureau of Land Management Director Tracy Stone-Manning, demanding more information about the error. The lawmakers noted that the false figure had been used by the White House to justify decreased oil and gas leasing.
"The Biden administration has been gas-lighting our domestic energy producers for the past two years. Now that the truth has come to light, Biden officials are quietly walking back their false statements hoping no one will take notice," Mullin told Fox News Digital. "I’m leading my Senate colleagues in demanding answers on BLM’s inaccurate reporting that led to these false claims. BLM should do all it can to ensure the energy industry and the American public this will not happen again," the Oklahoma lawmaker continued."To make matters worse, this administration used its faulty statistics to justify its refusal to comply with timely onshore and offshore federal oil and gas lease sales.
A Biden administration official then defended the correction, saying oil companies still have thousands of permits to drill on and have reported record profits over the last year.
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