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Love and Peace Quincy Jones. SIEGLER: But for the other BLM's new director, a beaming Tracy Stone-Manning, that scene shows that her agency is becoming a lot more known outside just the American West, especially now as the energy development she's about to regulate puts her on the front lines of the Biden administration's climate agenda.

Our agency is right in the middle of that of helping to drive that transition. That office in the middle of Colorado's massive oil and gas fields had been symbolic. Now Stone-Manning has other plans.

It's our responsibility to the future. And I think the way that you walk that line is to be transparent and clear about what you're doing. SIEGLER: With climate change accelerating, the federal government is trying to fast-track 25 new gigawatts of renewable development on public land by That'll mean a lot of new studies and permitting but also a big change for some local economies that are based on fossil fuel extraction.

When the Biden administration tried to put a freeze on all new oil and gas leases on public land, a federal judge struck it down.

The administration is appealing, but this February, the bureau is set to open up , more acres to oil and gas drilling. Groups like hers want to ban all drilling on federal land. The U. LEGER: By allowing these leases to move forward, the administration is locking in oil and gas development for the next 10 to 30 years. SIEGLER: But the industry warns stopping all of that would cost local economies tens of billions of dollars, and the bureau is required by law to manage public land for multiple uses.

Tracy Stone-Manning says the Biden administration will now factor in the carbon costs to any new proposed drilling, and any new leases will only be allowed next to existing development. What that energy looks like is an open question. In a country this polarized, she knows that this one may be the biggest challenge of her career. Search Query Show Search.