{"id":354904,"date":"2020-06-02T10:19:11","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T04:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=354904"},"modified":"2020-06-02T10:22:47","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T04:52:47","slug":"covid-19-impact-trump-admin-postpones-2-auctions-on-oil-and-gas-lease-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/covid-19-impact-trump-admin-postpones-2-auctions-on-oil-and-gas-lease-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19 impact: Trump admin postpones 2 auctions on oil and gas lease sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration has backed off its regular oil and gas lease sale schedule, postponing at least two auctions that had been set for later this month after delaying a major sale in New Mexico in May, according to an official website. <\/p>\n<p>The moves mark a shift for the US Department of Interior, which had proceeded with a slew of oil and gas lease sales on public lands earlier this year as the outbreak of the coronavirus caused energy prices to crash. <\/p>\n<p>Drilling on federal lands is a crucial part of President Donald Trump&#8217;s &#8220;energy dominance&#8221; agenda to maximise domestic production of fossil fuels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration has backed off its regular oil and gas lease sale schedule, postponing at least two auctions that had been set for later this month after delaying a major sale in New Mexico in May, according to an official website. The moves mark a shift for the US Department of Interior, which had proceeded with a slew of oil and gas lease sales on public lands earlier this year as the outbreak of the coronavirus caused energy prices to crash. Drilling on federal lands is a crucial part of President Donald Trump&#8217;s &#8220;energy dominance&#8221; agenda to maximise domestic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}