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Boom in Native American oil complicates Biden climate push

Burning of oil from tribal lands overseen by the U.S. government now produces greenhouse gases equivalent to about 12 million vehicles a year.

(Matthew Brown | AP) Pump jacks extract oil from beneath the ground on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation east of New Town, N.D., May 19, 2021. On oil well pads carved from the wheat fields around Lake Sakakawea, hundreds of pump jacks slowly bob to extract 100 million barrels of crude annually from a reservation shared by three Native American tribes.