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As the Trump administration continues to pursue its "energy dominance" agenda, federal judges have consistently rule against its decisions based on a lack of consideration for climate change impacts.
According to an analysis of recent rulings, federal judges have consistently faulted the Trump administration's lack of adequate analysis of the climate impacts for drilling, mining and infrastructure projects, ruling against Trump's drill everywhere approach at least six times. Most recently, a U.S. District Court judge in Montana threw out 287 oil and gas leases offered by the Bureau of Land Management for failing to analyze the climate impacts.
Pat Gallagher, director of the Sierra Club’s environmental law program said, “Judges all over the country are saying you can’t ignore climate when you’re leasing fossil fuels. The judges aren’t going to ignore climate even if Trump wants to.”
Trump's drill everywhere agenda aimed at Florida coastal waters
After claiming the Interior Department's plan for offshore oil and gas drilling was sidelined indefinitely after a court decision this spring blocked drilling in the Arctic, the department is supposedly preparing to open up waters off the coast of Florida to drilling in November after the election. President Trump's "energy dominance" drill everywhere agenda is likely to meet strong resistance in Florida where just the potential of drilling is highly controversial given the value of Florida's tourism economy.
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To a non-indigenous person, they are ruins. But to an indigenous Pueblo person, they’re still active sites that are used in spiritual ways. The fight has constantly been, ‘These are sacred sites.’ But the non-indigenous power is like, ‘Well prove to us these are sacred sites.’ How can we prove that when it’s our beliefs?”
