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Citing climate change, U.S. judge blocks oil and gas drilling in large swath of Wyoming
NBC News ^ | 3/20/19

Posted on 03/21/2019 2:30:11 AM PDT by Libloather

BILLINGS, Mont. — A judge blocked oil and gas drilling across almost 500 square miles in Wyoming and said the U.S. government must consider climate change impacts more broadly as it leases huge swaths of public land for energy exploration.

The order marks the latest in a string of court rulings over the past decade - including one last month in Montana - that have faulted the U.S. for inadequate consideration of greenhouse gas emissions when approving oil, gas and coal projects on federal land.

U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras in Washington appeared to go a step further than other judges in his order issued late Tuesday.

Previous rulings focused on individual lease sales or permits. But Contreras said that when the U.S. Bureau of Land Management auctions public lands for oil and gas leasing, officials must consider emissions from past, present and foreseeable future oil and gas leases nationwide.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Montana; US: New Mexico; US: Wyoming
KEYWORDS: biased; climate; climatechange; corruption; democratjudges; drill; energy; fisa; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; hoax; hydrocarbons; judge; judicialtyranny; maga; montana; ms13; opec; rudolphcontreras; tyrant; wyoming
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Emissions from extracting and burning fossil fuels from federal land generates the equivalent of 1.4 billion tons annually of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, according to a November report from the U.S. Geological Survey.

Plants and trees LOVE the stuff!

1 posted on 03/21/2019 2:30:11 AM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Since when are judges the litigants?


2 posted on 03/21/2019 2:32:30 AM PDT by blackdog
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To: blackdog

Unfit!


3 posted on 03/21/2019 2:33:06 AM PDT by jimfree (My18 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than an 8 year Obama.)
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To: Libloather

An Obama appointee. Also a FISA judge.


4 posted on 03/21/2019 2:36:19 AM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: jimfree

The administration should order the Judge to turn off the heating and cooling in his courtroom until they determine the impact the court is having on climate. Should only take a few decades.


5 posted on 03/21/2019 2:39:14 AM PDT by phoneman08 (qwiyrqweopigradfdzcm,.dadfjl,dz)
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To: Libloather

bread and butter :)


6 posted on 03/21/2019 2:40:28 AM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: Libloather

Judges are supposed to decide cases according to law. Climate change is not law.


7 posted on 03/21/2019 2:47:51 AM PDT by AlienCrossfirePlayer (Hitler was a socialist.)
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To: Libloather

Leftists start with a lie that they consider a definitive truism (e.g. Climate change). This allows them to twist words to do anything because if you can not disprove their lie, they demand you accept it as true.

This is flawed logic but is their trick to fooling people and nefariously achieving their ends.

Leftists


8 posted on 03/21/2019 2:49:21 AM PDT by joma89
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To: Libloather
Obama’s boy Contreras is a Cuban from Miami originally. Not a Westerner. Probably never been to Wyoming. Contreras is apparently a buddy of Peter “Lover Boy” Strzok too. Unbelievable.
 
9 posted on 03/21/2019 2:49:35 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
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To: Libloather; 100American; 11B40; A Balrog of Morgoth; A message; ACelt; Aeronaut; AFPhys; AlexW; ...
Why does Judge Contreras hate trees?

Or does he simply want Wyoming to be a theme park for coastal tourists?

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10 posted on 03/21/2019 2:51:09 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Modern feminism: ALL MEN BAD!!!)
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To: AlienCrossfirePlayer

Climate change is a religion. To them.


11 posted on 03/21/2019 2:53:32 AM PDT by RandallFlagg (Fact: Gun control laws kill innocents.)
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To: outofsalt

And check out the dates...

Rudolph Contreras District of Columbia / D.C. May 19, 2016 May 18, 2023

May 19, 2016 is the date Contreras was designated for FISA. Interesting timing, eh?

2023 is the expiration date for his term. But the 2016, nice timing.


12 posted on 03/21/2019 2:56:31 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: Libloather; MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
The case was brought by two advocacy groups, WildEarth Guardians and Physicians for Social Responsibility.

PSR has historic Commmunist Party affiliations. WildEarth Guardians shares its name with the now-defunct Wild Earth magazine, published by the ecoterrorist group Earth First!

13 posted on 03/21/2019 3:02:18 AM PDT by Fedora
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To: Libloather

There is no causal relationship between fossil fuel use and climate change. There soon will be a battle royal with true science experts presentation in court.

This may prove to be the case that breaks the back of the totalitarian climate change myth, just like the cases on evolution vs. divine creation .


14 posted on 03/21/2019 3:04:40 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Libloather

Carbon dioxide is what helps turn plants green and they want to eliminate that from the “environment.” Carbon dioxide is called the molecule of life.


15 posted on 03/21/2019 3:07:52 AM PDT by gattaca ("Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." Ronald Reagan)
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To: jimfree

This is one scientifically ignorant judge.


16 posted on 03/21/2019 3:09:40 AM PDT by abclily
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To: Fedora
WildEarth Guardians has partnered on lawsuits with the Earth First! spinoff Wildlands Network aka Wildlands Project.
17 posted on 03/21/2019 3:10:30 AM PDT by Fedora
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To: Libloather

A Federal Judge
Pitches fit and stamps his feet
A Toddler in Robes


18 posted on 03/21/2019 3:11:20 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
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Another black-robed Judiciarch.

I’d ignore him.


19 posted on 03/21/2019 3:12:03 AM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: outofsalt
An Obama appointee. Also a FISA judge.

and a key player in the deep state coup attempt against Trump. He is close friends with Peter Strzok and Lisa Page.

20 posted on 03/21/2019 3:13:20 AM PDT by Reeses (A journey of a thousand miles begins with a government pat down.)
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