A federal judge ruled that the administration didn't properly consider climate change impacts before allowing oil and gas companies to bid.
“This administration went to Scotland and told the world that America’s climate leadership is back, and now it’s about to hand over 80 million acres of public waters in the Gulf of Mexico to fossil fuel companies,” Natural Resources Committee Chair Raúl M. Grijalva. “This is happening under the same lax environmental and safety requirements and inadequate financial assurances that have put Americans in harm’s way for decades.
Regardless of when we hold lease sales, nothing prevents [the US Department of Interior] from informing the public about how it plans to reform and improve the federal leasing program.”—ruling that the president didn’t fully take into consideration climate change impacts.“This is a victory for all Gulf communities impacted by the onshore pollution from offshore drilling in the Gulf,” Cynthia Sarthou, executive director of local environmental justice/activism organization Healthy Gulf,.
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