( July 14, 2025, 8:50 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The One Big Beautiful Bill Act of 2025 (OBBBA) expands federal leasing for hydraulic fracturing and conventional oil drilling in onshore and offshore locations by mandating federal lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska’s Cook Inlet, by opening at least 20 million acres in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska for drilling, by making at least 1.6 million acres in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) available for drilling by 2032 and by reducing onshore royalties for new leases....