Biden sued by climate groups using novel legal argument to stop oil and gas drilling

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MarketWatch

Using an untested legal argument based on the Endangered Species Act, a coalition of environmental groups sued the Biden administration this week for failing to consider the harm to at-risk species from the emissions produced by oil and gas drilling on public lands.

The lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and led by the Center for Biological Diversity, argues that oil burned from a well in Wyoming adds to the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that is heating the planet. And the impact isn’t restricted to local wildlife, the suit alleges, but the fauna as far flung as polar bears in the Arctic and monk seals in Hawaii.

If the suit succeeds, more than 3,500 drilling permits issued during the Biden administration could be revoked and future permitting could be challenged.

Earlier this year, the Biden administration said it would resume selling leases for new oil and gas drilling on public lands, but would also raise the federal royalties that companies must pay to drill, the first increase in those fees in more than a century.

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Earlier this year, the Biden administration said it would resume selling leases for new oil and gas drilling on public lands, but would also raise the federal royalties that companies must pay to drill, the first increase in those fees in more than a century.

Because a -45 appointed judge ordered the admin to continue selling them permits.

[Omen78]

2. Well that's terrible timing

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3. It sure is. Are they unaware that midterms are 4 months away?

We have to get gas prices down. In January perhaps revisit this.