Number of actions Biden has taken against fossil fuels grows to 225, energy research group finds

The Institute for Energy Resources, a free-market energy research group, updated its running list of actions President Joe Biden and Democrats have taken to make it harder to produce energy since Biden took office. The list has grown to 225 laws, regulations and decisions making it more expensive and take longer to produce oil, gas and coal.

The list hit 200 in March after growing by 25 from the previous September. The newest actions since March, many of which target oil and gas development in Alaska, include:

• Cutting oil and gas land auctions by 3,000 in New Mexico
• Passing a final methane rule regulating emissions on public land
• New EPA emissions standards for heavy-duty trucks
• Blocking 23 million acres of Alaska to oil and gas drilling
• Restricting new oil and gas leasing on 13 million acres of Alaska
• Rejecting the Ambler Access Road, blocking mining development in Alaska
• Finalizing rules to create “conservation leases,” which block resource development

The latest item is the efforts in May at the G7 Ministerial Meeting on Climate, Energy and the Environment to phase out existing coal generation by 2035.

The U.S. is producing record-high levels of oil and gas. Tom Pyle, president of the American Energy Alliance, which is the advocacy arm of the IER, told Just the News in May that the industry has grown despite the Biden administration's efforts, which ironically have kept the economy in a much better position than it would have. A lot of that, he said, has to do with production on private lands, which is harder to regulate like that on public lands, such as those in Alaska.