U.S. Government Reduces Gulf Of Mexico Oil And Gas Lease To Save Whale Habitat

The federal government has reduced the area to be offered in the next Gulf of Mexico oil and gas lease sale by 9% to safeguard the habitat of a rare whale species. The adjustment, which will see the Interior Department auction 67 million acres instead of 73.4 million acres, followed a legal settlement with environmentalists regarding the whale habitat, Bloomberg reports. The American Petroleum Institute was not happy with this and other changes. “While the Department of the Interior announced a much-needed offshore lease sale today, the Biden…