U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration has the power to stymie oil and gas development on government-controlled lands and waters, industry and environmental experts said, even though a court decision ended his freeze on federal drilling auctions. Some options, they said, include offering sparse acreage or imposing more time-consuming permitting requirements. “We lived through the Obama administration, and they did a lot of things to constrain leasing and other activity on federal lands,” Kathleen Sgamma, president of industry trade group Western Energy Alliance, said in an interview. “And frankly they have the power to do so.” In January, Biden temporarily suspended drilling lease sales on federal lands and waters to weigh the program’s environmental costs. The move was widely seen as a first step to delivering on his campaign promise to […]