Reinstate quarterly onshore oil and gas lease sales in all producing states

What has happened

1. May 13, 2025 Partially done

   BLM issued the instruction memorandum "Oil and Gas Leasing – Land Use Planning and Lease Parcel Reviews", committing to complete parcel review and hold the sale within six months of scoping — against the eight to fifteen months the previous two years had taken — and to stop deferring parcels before NEPA review is complete. Sales resumed and have kept coming: Interior's first sales of 2025 raised over $39 million in March, a New Mexico sale $58 million in July 2025, and a New Mexico and Texas sale over $4 billion in May 2026. The Mandate's "expanded public notice and comment" went the other way — the June 2026 proposed leasing rule would cut public participation from ninety days to ten. No allowlisted source confirms quarterly sales in every producing state, so this is a piece delivered rather than the whole ask.

   • Interior press release: Interior Streamlines Oil and Gas Leasing to Advance Energy Independence and Economic Growth — BLM Instruction Memorandum, six-month parcel review, quarterly sales required by statute

     Primary Executive branch May 13, 2025

   • Interior press release: Department of the Interior Oil and Gas Lease Sale in New Mexico and Texas Generates Over $4 Billion

     Primary Executive branch May 20, 2026

   • Interior press release: Interior Advances Revisions to Oil and Gas Leasing and Waste Prevention Rules — proposal would "shorten public participation time frames from 90 days to 10 days"

     Primary Executive branch Jun 22, 2026

2. Feb 3, 2025 Attempted

   SO 3418 §4(c) directs "actions to offer more parcels of the public land for oil and gas leasing, including through quarterly lease sales, or additional lease sales, as appropriate and consistent with existing law, including 30 U.S.C. 226(c)", and lists BLM's Inflation Reduction Act expressions-of-interest instruction memoranda for rescission. A directive; no sale had yet been held under it.

   • Secretary's Order 3418, signed text — §4 directs action plans to suspend, revise or rescind SO 3398, SO 3399 and SO 3401 and the Biden-era rules listed with them

     Primary Executive branch Feb 3, 2025

   • Secretary's Order 3418, “Unleashing American Energy” (February 3, 2025)

     Primary Executive branch Feb 3, 2025