Project 2025 would push the Department of the Interior to allow oil and natural gas lease sales “to the maximum extent permitted.”
The groups behind the Mandate for Leadership want to “conduct offshore oil and natural gas lease sales to the maximum extent permitted.”
This section of the Mandate for Leadership was written by William Perry Pendley, a former Trump administration official who had to recuse himself from dozens of matters before the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) while he was leading it, due to flagrant conflicts of interest as the former president of a special interest organization that called for the widespread transfer of federal public lands to private holders. Not only that, Pendley has referred to climate science as ‘junk science’ and likened the existence of climate change to unicorns.
This proposal would allow fossil fuel companies to drill on more public lands and waters, undoing progress made by the current administration to decrease this harmful practice.
IN THEIR OWN WORDS: “Conduct offshore oil and natural gas lease sales to the maximum extent permitted under the 2023–2028 lease program,34 with the possibility to move forward under a previously studied but unselected plan alternative.”
TAKEN DIRECTLY FROM “Mandate for Leadership” p. 523