Federal Judge Revokes Oil And Gas Leases

This seems like worrisome news:

A federal court has rejected a plan to lease millions of acres in the Gulf of Mexico for offshore oil drilling, saying the Biden administration did not adequately take into account the lease sale’s effect on planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions, violating a bedrock environmental law.

The decision Thursday by U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras in Washington sends the proposed lease sale back to the Interior Department to decide next steps. The judge said it was up to Interior to decide whether to go forward with the sale after a revised review, scrap it or take other steps.

I know you’ll be shocked, shocked to discover that Contreras was appointed by Obama.

Environmental groups hailed the decision and said the ruling gave President Joe Biden a chance to follow through on a campaign promise to stop offshore leasing in federal waters.

Since when is a politicians campaign promise a legal basis to overturn a government contract? Since when is “But global warming!” an excuse to break a contract?

We already have politicians trying to invoke “racial injustice emergencies” to ram through any number of unconstitutional decrees. How long until a judge decrees that you can’t buy heating oil in the winter, because global warming?

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2 Responses to “Federal Judge Revokes Oil And Gas Leases”

  1. Pettifogger says:

    Maybe a judge in Maine will ban a/c in the summer, whereupon a judge in Texas can ban winter heating.

  2. buddhaha says:

    Some “journalist” at ABC news says “bedrock environmental law”. As lawyers say, “assumes facts not in evidence.”

    Standard left wing bullshit, and the great unwashed is expected to swallow it.

    Environmental *law* (not regulations issued by unelected bureaucrats) doesn’t mention “greenhouse gases”. Are they ignorant or liars?

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