“Unfortunately, our economic bedrock of oil and gas is under attack by an administration that is bent on eliminating millions of jobs,” Republican Congressman Brian Babin announced to the public last week at a press event along with six other Texas politicians, with the refineries and petrochemical plants of the Houston Ship Channel as a backdrop. Babin’s statement echoes the fears of many in and around the United States oil and gas industry, which sees itself as under siege by the Biden administration’s climate-forward policy goals. President Biden, for his part, did little to quell fears in the shale patch when he signed an executive order pulling the plug on the massive Keystone XL pipeline project on his very first day in office. Yes, it’s true that things aren’t looking good for shale jobs, and fears of the sector’s accelerated downturn under the Biden administration are far from unfounded. […]