The Biden administration was handed a major legal defeat over its efforts to restrict oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico in a decision handed down Thursday night.
Voice of the Arctic Inupiat Nagruk Harcharek and AIDEA Executive Director Randy Rauro joined 'Fox & Friends First' to discuss the significance of the drilling projects and broader pushback surrounding the measure.
Cain ruled the federal government must proceed with the lease sale by Sept. 30 under its original conditions. As a result of a July settlement with environmental groups, BOEM removed about six million acres from the sale and imposed variousassociated with the leases auctioned to protect the Rice’s whale species found in parts of the Gulf of Mexico.
"Industry plaintiffs have shown a likelihood that these will burden their operations on current and planned leases," the ruling continued."The resulting costs would not be undone by the court’s entry of a permanent injunction and order of another sale."appeared to be an attempt to"provide scientific justification to a political reassessment of offshore drilling.
"We are pleased that the court has hit the brakes on the Biden Administration’s ill-conceived effort to restrict American development of reliable, lower-carbon energy in the Gulf of Mexico," Meyers said in a statement.
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