300 word response with 2 references/intext citations from the internet
Due 2/25/2025
The United States Department of the Interior (DOI) is in charge of preserving and running federal lands and national parks. One of its duties is to allocate and issue oil drilling permits and licenses to various private oil drilling companies to drill on public lands for oil. Under the Trump administration, such permits and licenses were issued by the DOI on a liberal basis. Many described the mantra of the DOI as “drill baby drill”. Then, the Biden administration took over and the DOI changed its mantra to more of an environmentally sensitive agency and the DOI created new regulations to require much more formalities in the applications for drilling and many more studies and data to prove that such drilling is more environmentally sound. The DOI has now been very slow at issuing such oil drilling permits and licenses and in fact, has issued very few over the last few years.
You are a CEO of a oil drilling company and your company’s permits and/or license applications have been consistently being denied which is costing your company serious revenues and profits. Also, the less oil being drilled the more likely the price of gasoline will reduce for the public. Finally, the more drilling permits and/or licenses your company gets, the more jobs your company can create.
Your company now wants to “fight back” against the DOI’s apparently new philosophy that such oil drilling permits and licenses should not be issued very often and the new regulations making it harder for such permits and licenses to be issued.
How can those with “legal standing” fight back against the DOI implementation of the new regulations (that make it much more difficult to secure approval of a oil drilling permit or license) by using the three branches of the federal government and how these three branches have general controls over agencies, albeit indirectly at times. Explain. (Hint– at least two online video lectures this term explain the controls/checks on the three branches of the federal government has over federal agencies)
