Energy and climateFinding
The federal government should expand oil and gas drilling on federal lands and waters.
This concerns leases on land and offshore areas the federal government owns. It does not cover drilling on private or state land.
Shelley Moore Capito
On Day One, President Trump took immediate and meaningful action to reassert American energy dominance... We must continue to invest in affordable, reliable, and American-made energy
We can be self-reliant on our own energy resources, whether it's oil, natural gas, coal, wind, solar, nuclear — whatever it is, we're going to need it all.
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