The Trump administration plans to continue issuing permits for oil drilling and do other work on \u201cpriority conventional energy projects\u201d during the government shutdown but will freeze activities on some renewable energy projects. <\/p>\n
The Interior Department, which oversees energy development on federal lands and waters, is furloughing thousands of workers but will keep processing permits for new oil and gas projects, coal leases and other energy work, according to its shutdown plan. The department\u2019s Bureau of Land Management<\/a>, which oversees about 245 million acres of public land, said staffers handling those issues are exempt from furloughs in part to address a national energy emergency that President Donald Trump declared earlier this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Trump administration plans to continue issuing permits for oil drilling and do other work on \u201cpriority conventional…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[33727,11507,42988,246,18932,18934,18933,1523,18447,42989,61,15706,60,1259,3400,82],"class_list":["post-62231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-alaska","tag-donald-john-trump","tag-energy-development","tag-environment","tag-fossil-fuel","tag-generic-1st-cl-future","tag-generic-1st-xw-future","tag-government","tag-green","tag-gulf-of-mexico","tag-ie","tag-industries","tag-ireland","tag-national-security","tag-renewable-energy","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}