A House Natural Resources subcommittee this week will consider the state of the country’s offshore oil and gas resources, a flashpoint of disagreement between the climate-focused Biden administration and House Republicans.
Titled “Assessing Domestic Offshore Energy Reserves & Ensuring U.S. Energy Dominance,” the Energy and Mineral Resources hearing will reprise a fight over how the White House manages the nation’s massive stores of crude oil and natural gas and consider how the Interior Department assesses the potential for future oil and gas exploration and production offshore.
Republican leaders on the committee have frequently argued that President Joe Biden’s energy policies for public lands and offshore could thwart national fossil fuel supply and harm American energy resilience.
The chair of the subcommittee, Rep. Pete Stauber (R-Minn.), has compared the president’s hostility to oil to the limits placed on mining in his state.
