Environmental groups sued the Biden administration on Wednesday, seeking to block oil and gas lease sales in eight states as they kicked off in Wyoming.
The legal action comes as the Department of the Interior holds auctions that were effectively compelled by a federal judge last year. The ruling a year ago blocked the government's efforts to suspend federal oil and gas leasing over its climate impacts, a setback to President Joe Biden's climate agenda.
"BLM continues to recklessly lease large swaths of the western United States to oil and gas development without comprehensively reviewing these connected actions and analyzing the severity of the resulting climate impacts from the addition of thousands of tons of emissions into the atmosphere," the groups said in the complaint.
The planned sales will run on Wednesday and Thursday and cover nearly 130,000 acres. Most of the acreage is in Wyoming, a major oil producing state. The rest are sprinkled across Colorado, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma and Utah.
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