The US government will no longer track how much geothermal energy is produced on public lands.

The Bureau of Land Management has removed rules that required tracking geothermal energy production on federal lands. This means the government will no longer collect data on how much geothermal energy is generated from these leases.

The US government has been trying to encourage more geothermal energy development. But it just removed a rule that tracked how much energy was actually produced on federal land. This makes it harder to know if the government's efforts are working or if the industry is actually growing.