President Obama’s onslaught of 11th hour rules and regulations to stifle oil and gas will be vulnerable to a motivated Congress’ retribution and incoming Trump Administration, experts say. Despite presiding over the height of the shale revolution, the Obama Administration has leased less federal land to the oil and gas industry than any other president since at least 1981 – and industry insiders are hopeful the incoming Trump Administration will turn that around. The difference between the BLM lease issuances under the Obama Administration and those of previous administrations is stark. By 2014, the Obama Administration’s BLM had issued 1,753 leases – almost half the number granted during the Clinton Administration between 1993 and 2001, according to data from the Institute for Energy Research . And the time needed for BLM to process these permits has also increased from 205 days between 2005 and 2009, to 242 days required […]