'The Biden administration must end new leasing and phase out existing drilling. Anything less would be a gross failure of climate leadership.' —CenterForBioDiv
in the Gulf of Mexico, a significant win for environmentalists as they work to prevent the Interior Department from handing public lands and waters over to the fossil fuel industry., Judge Rudolph Contreras of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. wrote that the Biden administration violated federal law by not adequately accounting for the emissions impact of the sale, which would have been the biggest offshore oil and gas lease sell-off in the country's history.
"The Department of the Interior acted arbitrarily and capriciously in excluding foreign consumption from their greenhouse gas emissions calculation," Contreras, an Obama appointee, found. "Interior should use its next five-year leasing plan to protect our coastal communities and public waters and offer no new offshore leases," Hardy added."We can no longer afford to do anything less."
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