Fossil fuel extraction on federal lands and waters has accounted for an estimated 25% of all U.S. carbon emissions since 2005.
Judge Terry Doughty of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, the same judge whoBiden's lease sale moratorium last year, sided Thursday with the 13 fossil fuel industry-friendly Republican attorneys general who sued to block the pause.
Doughty's ruling applies only to the 13 states that took legal action against the Biden administration: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, and West Virginia.that the Mineral Leasing Act and the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act"require government defendants' agencies to sell oil and gas leases"—a federal appellate judge struck down the Trump judge's earlier injunction, sending it back to the lower court.
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