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Oil & gas leasing practice eliminated by Hickenlooper bill
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A federal-lands leasing practice critics say allows oil and gas companies to unfairly gain control of publicly owned mineral resources was eliminated by a bill sponsored by U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper that was included in President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act that became law Tuesday. A quirk in federal-land leasing law allowed oil and gas…