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James Bikales

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Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Aug 20, 2026
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  1. Article · Aug 20, 2026 · James Bikales

    DOE doles out $500M to minerals, battery projects (opens the original)

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    The Energy Department announced Thursday it had selected seven critical mineral processing and battery manufacturing projects to receive a combined $500 million in federal grant funding. The financing comes as the Trump administration has stepped up its efforts to counter China’s dominance of critical minerals supply chains, including hosting an event with mining executives attended by President Donald Trump earlier this month. That has also benefited the nascent U.S. industry that manufactures

  2. Article · Aug 19, 2026 · James Bikales

    Interior to auction thousands of acres in major oil region (opens the original)

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    The Interior Department is set to auction off more than 20,000 acres across one of the U.S.’s most prolific crude-producing regions Wednesday, months after a lease sale there shattered the record as the highest-grossing onshore sale ever. Oil and gas producers will bid Wednesday on 26 parcels in New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas, which are being offered with lower royalty rates and loosened regulations set by Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The total acreage is smaller than the May auction

  3. Article · Aug 13, 2026 · James Bikales

    Top White House oil liaison departs for Sable Offshore (opens the original)

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    Brittany Kelm, one of the White House’s top liaisons with the oil and gas industry, is leaving the administration for a position at Sable Offshore Corp., the oil producer that the White House aided in restarting a set of controversial oil platforms off California’s Central Coast earlier this year. Kelm, who started at the Interior Department before moving to the White House’s National Energy Dominance Council as senior policy adviser for oil and gas last May, will depart the administration Frida

  4. Article · Aug 12, 2026 · James Bikales

    Interior raises $82.7M in Gulf oil and gas lease sale (opens the original)

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    The Interior Department raised $82.7 million in an offshore oil and gas lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday, eclipsing the lackluster auction in March but falling well short of results from other offshore lease sales in recent years. Sixteen companies submitted 69 bids on 59 tracts, according to Interior’s Marine Minerals Administration, which conducted its first sale since its formation by the Trump administration in July. The bureau had offered up approximately 15,100 unleased blocks

  5. Article · Aug 10, 2026 · James Bikales, Ari Hawkins

    White House extends Jones Act waiver through mid-November (opens the original)

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    The Trump administration said Monday it would extend by 90 days its Jones Act waiver that allows non-American ships to transport energy products and other commodities between U.S. ports while supplies remain constrained by the war in the Middle East, according to the White House. The latest extension, which takes effect Aug. 17, comes as the petroleum supply chain remains strained because of the ongoing hostilities with Iran. But the new waiver allowing the foreign-flagged ships to move cargoes

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