The Biden Administration auctioned off oil and gas drilling rights for nearly 81 million acres of the Gulf of Mexico last year — but a judge ruled Thursday the administration failed to adequately consider the sale’s impact on the climate.
A federal judge rescinded oil and gas leases for a wide swath of the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday, arguing the government failed to consider their impact on climate change before they were auctioned off late last year, a win for environmental groups that have pushed the Biden Administration to stop signing new leases.... [+]D.C.-based Judge Rudolph Contreras’ ruling vacates a November 2021 oil and natural gas lease sale that covered 80.
Hallie Templeton from Friends of the Earth — one of the environmental groups that sued the government — called the ruling a “victorious outcome not only for the Gulf’s communities, wildlife, and ecosystem, but also for the warming planet” in a
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