For four years, President Biden has unwisely placed environmental standards above the United States’ energy needs. His officials have embraced a long Democratic tradition: finding “green” excuses to limit domestic oil, gas, and critical minerals production – hurting American companies and helping our adversaries.

In the 1990s, I fought President Clinton’s “tin cup diplomacy,” as he went hat-in-hand to buy oil from rogue nations instead of producing energy at home. I persuaded Congress to approve what became the largest boom of offshore development in the Gulf of Mexico – until Presidents Obama and Biden restricted it. And today, I am supporting the efforts of Mississippi companies working to achieve energy independence.

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Roger Wicker is the senior United States Senator for the state of Mississippi.

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