Law be damned, there’s a cult that needs feeding
A federal judge canceled major oil and gas leases over climate change
Late last year, just days after pledging to cut fossil fuels at international climate talks in Glasgow, Scotland, the Biden administration held the largest oil and gas lease sale in U.S. history.
On Thursday, a federal judge invalidated that sale in the Gulf of Mexico, saying the administration didn’t adequately consider the costs to the world’s climate.
The administration used an analysis conducted under former President Donald Trump that environmental groups alleged was critically flawed.
The decision represents a major win for a coalition of environmental groups that challenged the controversial sale, calling it a “huge climate bomb.”
Those leases will be vacated by the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia’s decision, and the Interior Department will have to conduct a new environmental analysis if it decides to hold another sale. (snip)
U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras wrote that the Interior Department acted “arbitrarily and capriciously in excluding foreign consumption from their greenhouse gas emissions,” adding that the “error was indeed a serious failing.”
Under what law or Constitutional principle? That sure seems like imposing foreign law on legal sales under U.S. law. I think it’s safe to say that this will be appealed, and, really, this judge should be impeached for breach of duty.
Oh, and when prices go up, who will the Warmists blame for spiking gas and oil prices? Especially when they won’t give up their own use of fossil fuels?
