Federal Layoffs Slow Energy Permits

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Musk's layoffs shrink workforce needed to help realize Trump's energy dominance agenda

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White House : "Streamlining organization charts in an effort to make government more efficient will not impact the President’s Drill Baby Drill agenda" More than 20,000 federal employees are estimated to have lost their jobs so far, almost all of them probationary workers that have less than a year in their current roles.

Permitting has slowed in some of the nation's top-producing oil and gas states, as well as among Native American tribes that rely on fossil fuel extraction for revenue for public services.

Oil-producing states say DOGE ’s job cuts are already slowing permitting further.

Alaska 's Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski said that 60% of Alaska is composed of federal land.

BLM offices administer drilling permits on the Permian Basin the main driver of record U.S. oil and gas production - have also been hit.

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