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Jack Reed: “Is it true that the oil companies aren't using roughly half of their onshore Federal leases?”

On the recordJuly 12, 2022
Is it true that the oil companies aren't using roughly half of their onshore Federal leases?
Said by
Jack Reed
Democratic · Rhode Island

Editor's note · Context

Reed asserts that many onshore federal leases are not being utilized.

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