IPANM (April 15, 2022) -- In response to the Department of Interior's Leasing Announcement, IPANM releases the following statement:

"The Biden administration's announcement to lease just 20% of the available acreage nominated by the oil and gas industry will do little to change the President's war on domestic production punishing American consumers.

If the Biden administration was serious about decreasing prices at the pump, fighting inflation, and returning America to energy independence, the President would have made a more meaningful announcement himself instead of pushing out a weak policy reversal by news release late on a Friday afternoon leading into a holiday weekend."

--Jim Winchester, IPANM Executive Director