The Hartley Sentinel-The Everly/Royal News - Serving O'Brien & Clay Counties

After weeks of dragging their feet, and under bipartisan pressure, on Tuesday the Biden administration finally took steps to ban imports of oil and natural gas from Russia. As Putin continues his assault on freedom and slaughters innocent men, women, and children in Ukraine, the president made the right decision to end purchasing of Russia’s bloody oil. But what took so long?

It’s important to remember that in his first days in office, President Biden took unilateral action to reduce American energy production. He ended the Keystone XL pipeline, paused leasing of federal lands and water...