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Permian Basin Climate Justice Coalition members applaud the rule as a good first step
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) issued its final Onshore Oil and Gas Leasing Rule, the first comprehensive update to the federal onshore oil and gas leasing program in decades. The Department of the Interior, which oversees the BLM, announced the draft rule in July and held a 60-day comment period that ended in September. The rule includes long-overdue, commonsense fiscal reforms and incorporates updates passed by Congress under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).