A federal judge has invalidated the Biden administration’s oil and gas leases for 80 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico, citing climate change
The ruling cancels 1.7 million acres of oil and gas leases from that sale, according to data from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.The administration tried in its first days in office to put a stop to new oil and gas drilling. On January 27, 2021, Biden signed an executive order that paused new permits and directed the Department of the Interior to launch a"rigorous review" of existing programs related to fossil fuel development.
Climate change is coming for our coffee A coalition of environmental groups, including the Center for Biological Diversity, Healthy Gulf and Friends of the Earth, sued the Biden administration to stop the lease sale. Environmental law firm Earthjustice represented the coalition."We are pleased that the court invalidated Interior's illegal lease sale," Earthjustice senior attorney Brettny Hardy said in a statement.
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