A federal judge struck down the federal oil and gas leasing moratorium Thursday evening, potentially ending the policy President Biden has pursued since taking office.
Biden administration's moratorium
on federal oil and gas leasing, a potentially fatal blow to the policy that has been tied up in a legal battle since early 2021. U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana Judge Terry Doughty issued a permanent injunction blocking the leasing moratorium in a ruling late Thursday evening.
Doughty wrote that President Biden "lacked any authority" to implement the policy under the Mineral Leasing Act and Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act which regulate federal"The Court finds Section 208 of Executive Order 14008 is ultra vires, beyond the authority of the President of the United States, and in violation of the OCSLA and the MLA," he wrote in the opinion.
Biden issued Executive Order 14008 — titled the "Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad" — on Jan. 27, 2021, days after taking office. The action ordered the Department of the Interior to pause new oil and natural gas leases, a policy
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