A trio of bills designed to invigorate drilling on public lands has a watchdog group casting U.S. Reps. Scott Tipton, Doug Lamborn and Mike Coffman as “the Three Stooges for the oil and gas industry.”
Congressman Tipton introduced the Planning for American Energy Act, or H.R. 4381, which would not only direct the Secretary of the Interior to establish goals for an all-of-the-above energy production plan every four years but it would also give oil companies first crack at leasing federal lands.
Congressman Lamborn followed that bill up the same day, April 18, with the Streamlining Permitting of American Energy Act, or H.R. 4383, which would loosen the application requirements fo…