Department of Interior

The department announced it plans to combine the Bureau of Offshore Energy Management and the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement into the Marine Minerals Administration.

TotalEnergies will instead invest in the Rio Grande LNG plant, upstream conventional oil development in the US Gulf of Mexico, and shale-gas production.

The project, which is owned and run by Equinor offshore New York, is more than 60% complete.

The US Department of Energy announced a $625 million investment to expand America’s coal industry, aiming to increase energy production and support coal communities.

The new schedule plans for sales in the US Gulf and Alaska through 2039.

The updates remove some requirements from two grant programs in an attempt to speed up the application process.

Sale 262 will be the first new auction covering leases in US Gulf federal waters in 2 years.

The emergency permitting rules aim to accelerate geothermal energy development. Ormat Technologies' three Nevada projects will be the first to benefit from the streamlined process, with environmental reviews cut from years to weeks.

Using emergency procedures, the permitting timeline is expected to be significantly reduced, from years to weeks in some cases.

The Interior Department has now approved more than 19 GW of offshore wind energy.