Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso, the top Republican on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee says he’s ready to work with President Biden to solve our energy challenges, but he’s not seeing actions reflecting Biden’s unifying words on Inauguration Day.
Writing an opinion piece in Monday’s USA Today, the Republican senator said Biden’s killing of the Keystone XL pipeline followed by the ban on federal leases for oil and gas “will take a sledgehammer to the economies of Western states without putting a dent in climate change.”
He said the leasing ban will kill an estimated 62,000 jobs in New Mexico, nearly 120,000 in Texas and more than 33,000 in Wyoming.
Click here for his opinion piece.