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Oil and gas executives met with President Trump at the White House on Wednesday, seeking to influence him on issues ranging from deregulation to tariffs.

Some executives in the industry, which spent more than $75 million to help elect Mr. Trump, are increasingly frustrated with his agenda. Tariffs are making essential materials like steel pipe more expensive while also rattling consumer confidence.

Oil prices have fallen around 14 percent since just before Mr. Trump took office, to about $67 a barrel. Peter Navarro, a senior White House aide, has talked about the benefits of oil that sells for just $50 a barrel. At such prices, companies operating in wide swaths of the American oil patch would lose money drilling new wells.

Oil prices did not come up during Wednesday’s meeting, Trump administration officials said.

“There’s nothing we could say in that room that would change that one iota, and so it wasn’t really a topic of discussion,” Doug Burgum, the interior secretary, told reporters.

Instead,mgbet cassino according to Mr. Burgum, executives focused on issues such as making it easier to secure permits for energy projects. “We’ve got to be able to build, baby, build so that we’ve actually got the infrastructure to drive our economy forward,” he said.

Here are some of the industry’s priorities:

They are all solutions to tackle not only the hazards of extreme weather but also a growing recognition that playing in nature could be good for children.

This year’s Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award went to three scientists for their work on GLP-1, the hormone that led to drugs like Wegovy (the same compound is the basis for Ozempic), which have transformed the treatment of obesity. They are Dr. Joel Habener, Svetlana Mojsov and Lotte Bjerre Knudsen.

Permitting ReformImageChris Wright, right, the secretary of energy, giving a speech at the CERAWeek by S&P Global conference in Houston last week.Credit...Kaylee Greenlee/Reuters

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