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Trump administration cuts oil, gas fees in hundreds of cases

by Associated Press
| June 10, 2020 3:03 PM

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Trump administration has awarded energy companies hundreds of breaks on payments for oil and gas extraction from U.S. lands and the Gulf of Mexico during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a government database and federal officials.

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