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Biden admin removes whale habitat from Gulf oil lease sale

E&E News - Energywire · By Heather Richards · last updated

The Biden administration has removed about 6 million acres of the Gulf of Mexico from potential oil and gas development to protect an endangered whale.

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management published a final notice of sale Wednesday for the auction of 67 million acres for oil and gas leasing. The Sept. 27 auction — the third, and smallest, in the Gulf under the Biden administration — will not include a broad band of water stretching from Texas to Florida because it could be habitat for the Rice’s whale.

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