The Biden administration is auctioning off oil and gas leases for roughly 35,000 acres of land in Wyoming on Tuesday, angering environmentalists.

Over the next two weeks, the Bureau of Land Management is slated to auction off 63 drilling parcels across six Western states - Wyoming, New Mexico, Nevada, North Dakota, Oklahoma, and Utah.

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The auctions will amount to a total of 44,000 acres and will be carried out through the online auction platform EnergyNet.

The Wyoming lease sale comes less than a month after an appeals court ordered the federal government to carry out an oil and gas lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico. The sales are required by a stipulation included in the Inflation Reduction Act at the behest of Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV).

Under that provision, Interior must approve a minimum amount of drilling rights in order to comply with offshore wind targets.

Environmental groups were sharply critical of the lease sale, which they argue contradicts President Joe Biden’s campaign trail pledge to end all drilling on federal land and waters.

The administration also sparked ire with its approval of Willow, the massive oil drilling project in Alaska’s North Slope approved by another federal court this month.

Friends of the Earth and other climate groups said in response that they intend to challenge the ruling, describing Willow as “wholly incompatible with a clean, just energy future that protects polar bears, people, and the planet.”

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“Instead of doing the necessary work to fight climate change, Biden continues to support the expansion of fossil fuels here in the U.S., including leasing public lands and waters for drilling and pushing forward with mega projects like Willow in Alaska," Nicole Ghio, senior fossil fuels program manager at Friends of the Earth, told the Washington Examiner in a statement Tuesday, describing the new lease auctions as the latest in a string of disappointments from the administration.

Interior issued just 527 leases in fiscal 2021 and fiscal 2022, BLM data show, compared to the 2,740 held under the Trump administration during the previous two-year period.