The Interior Department is selling 73 million acres of the Gulf of Mexico for new fossil fuel development, but don't pay that any mind. There's a new wind plan!
, along with the Alaska auction and another planned Gulf sale. Yet then, the President reversed course. In negotiating the Inflation Reduction ActSome have argued un-cancelling the auctions was a necessary compromise to get the IRA passed and move U.S. climate action forward.
. “It’s double the size of Willow. It’s going to lock in fossil fuel development in the Gulf for the next 50 years,” he added.The DOI forecasted that just the drilling and development resulting from the auction alone could emit about 21.2 million metric tons of CO2 in its—equivalent to about 4.6 million cars’ annual emissions. And that’s not taking into account the actual emissions from the fossil fuels extracted under Lease Sale 259 and subsequently burned.
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