The Interior Department on Tuesday announced a plan to hold 30 auctions for oil drilling rights in U.S. oceans over the next 15 years. The schedule, mandated by Republicans’ recently passed tax and spending megalaw, dramatically expands the access oil and gas companies will have to explore U.S. oceans for fossil energy. It will replace a five-year strategy developed during the Biden administration that sought to shrink fossil fuel development from public lands and waters by holding just...