A federal judge has blocked a plan by the Biden administration to lease 80 million acres of the Gulf of Mexico for oil and gas drilling.
has said that there can be no new major fossil fuel projects if the world is to avoid disastrous global heating. Three congressional Democrats filed a brief with the court supporting the environment groups.
A spokesperson for the Interior Department said the government will review the judge’s decision, adding that “long-overdue programmatic reforms” needed to be made in the management of oil and gas drilling across public lands and waters. The American Petroleum Institute, an industry lobby group, said the decision was “disappointing” and that it will review its legal options.
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