A federal judge ordered Biden to follow the law and lease federal lands. A year later, he's still welching on his obligations. But he is headed to Saudi Arabia to beg for their oil. So we've got that going for us.
New York Times (6/15/21) reported: "A federal judge in Louisiana has blocked the Biden administration’s suspension of new oil and gas leases on federal lands and waters, in the first major legal roadblock for President Biden’s quest to cut fossil fuel pollution and conserve public lands. Judge Terry A. Doughty of the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana granted a preliminary injunction Tuesday against the administration, saying that the power to pause offshore oil and gas leases “lies solely with Congress” because it was the legislative branch that originally made federal lands and waters available for leasing. Judge Doughty also ruled that 13 states that are suing the administration over its temporary halt to new leases 'have made a showing that there is a substantial likelihood that President Biden exceeded his powers.'...Judge Doughty ruled that Interior Secretary Deb Haaland and her agency “are hereby enjoined and restrained from implementing the pause of new oil and natural gas leases on public lands or in offshore waters.” until the states’ legal case against the administration is decided. He wrote that the pause on new leasing should end nationwide and noted that such sweeping preliminary injunctions against federal actions were exceedingly rare.”
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"The energy discourse is so weird right now. Senate Democrats have spent the past 16 months negotiating a deflationary energy-reform bill. Now an energy-driven inflation crisis is crashing the economy. Maybe y’all should, you know, hurry up with that bill?"
– Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic
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