Lone Democrat Jared Golden Joins House GOP in Passing Massive Big Oil Handout

House Republicans and a single Democrat — Rep. Jared Golden of Maine — passed legislation Friday that would require the federal government to lease a certain percentage of public lands and waters for fossil fuel extraction for every non-emergency drawdown of the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve, a trade-off that climate advocates slammed as a huge gift to Big Oil. “Fossil fuel companies are…

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