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U.S. Judge Nullifies Results of November Offshore Lease Auction Over Climate Impact
Offshore Engineer ^ | Jan 28 2022 | Nichola Groom and Valerie Volcovici

Posted on 01/28/2022 8:59:25 AM PST by texas booster

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"We have documented serious deficiencies in the federal oil and gas program," Interior spokesperson Melissa Schwartz said in a statement. "Especially in the face of the climate crisis, we need to take the time to make significant and long overdue programmatic reforms."

"We are pleased that the court invalidated Interior’s illegal lease sale," said Brettny Hardy, Earthjustice’s senior attorney, in a statement. "We simply cannot continue to make investments in the fossil fuel industry to the peril of our communities and increasingly warming planet."

The decision is not the first time a court has cited faulty environmental analyses in blocking oil and gas development on federal lands. In August, a federal judge reversed the government's approval of a $6 billion ConocoPhillips development in Alaska, a decision that was cited in Contreras' ruling.

Activists at work. Find a friendly judge, exceed authority. In this case, Contreras again

The use the case to get another friendly judge to overrule yet another administrative action.

But it is not like this administration is trying to defend it's own positions.

1 posted on 01/28/2022 8:59:25 AM PST by texas booster
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To: texas booster

Climate Cretins.


2 posted on 01/28/2022 9:01:16 AM PST by rfp1234 (Comitia asinorum et rhinocerum delenda sunt.)
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To: texas booster

An illegal action.


3 posted on 01/28/2022 9:02:18 AM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: texas booster

Solution?

Shut off all energy delivery to Blue States.


4 posted on 01/28/2022 9:04:07 AM PST by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuits)
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To: texas booster

Judge Rudolph Contreras and dabbler in climatology? I would have been more pleased if he had commented on the NOT climate crisis. No comments from the office of the exterior? CLIMAGEDDON!!!!


5 posted on 01/28/2022 9:05:00 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: texas booster

Judgislators. Why have either?


6 posted on 01/28/2022 9:05:28 AM PST by blackdog (# We Are Corn-Pop, turn off the news.)
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To: texas booster

Wanna bet Biden didn’t do the paperwork because he wanted the judge to 86’ it without taking the hit for killing it himself?


7 posted on 01/28/2022 9:06:20 AM PST by Bayard
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To: texas booster

Note to judges: You do not make “climate” policy.


8 posted on 01/28/2022 9:06:21 AM PST by Wuli
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Judge Rudolph Contreras remains an existential threat to “our democracy”.


9 posted on 01/28/2022 9:07:16 AM PST by Paladin2
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10 posted on 01/28/2022 9:08:19 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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The Judge has no such authority, and his excuse is without foundation in science.


11 posted on 01/28/2022 9:08:28 AM PST by G Larry (The "Racism" charge is code for "No Intelligent Argument")
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To: texas booster

You forgot to account for the money these enviro groups receive from Uncle Sugar to sustain their lawsuits against Uncle Sugar.


12 posted on 01/28/2022 9:08:36 AM PST by shotgun
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I’ll bet the judge followed the law scrupulously. I also don’t trust Biden’s administration to do the work required to actually guarantee the sale. Rather I bet they screwed it up on purpose.


13 posted on 01/28/2022 9:09:50 AM PST by Bayard
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Calculate the Climate Change Impact?

OK, better get a Scientific study before becoming pregnant.

How much CO2 will that baby exhale over it’s life?

Oops, too much; terminate pregnancy.


14 posted on 01/28/2022 9:10:20 AM PST by Scrambler Bob (My /s is more true than your /science (or you might mean /seance))
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To: texas booster

For the life of me, I cannot understand how these completely ignorant tools are allowed to destroy this nation over their idiotic, moronic, ignorant, idiocy of climate change and renewables.
If there was a better, cheaper, cleaner way to produce energy we would have companies doing it.


15 posted on 01/28/2022 9:11:36 AM PST by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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To: texas booster

We are literally ruled ... by children.


16 posted on 01/28/2022 9:14:48 AM PST by dartuser
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To: Bayard

“Rudolph Contreras is a federal judge on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. He joined the court in 2012 after a nomination from President Barack Obama (D).[1][2]

Contreras is the presiding judge of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. He was appointed by Chief Justice John G. Roberts on May 19, 2016.[3] Contreras became presiding judge of the court on May 19, 2021.[4”

If he narrowly followed the Law in this case, it was only because it allowed him to further his agenda.


17 posted on 01/28/2022 9:17:05 AM PST by Paladin2
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Contreras was the judge in the Gen. Michael Flynn case who refused to let the case end when all parties withdrew the charges.

-PJ

18 posted on 01/28/2022 9:24:52 AM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Paladin2

I Still don’t trust the Biden administration.


19 posted on 01/28/2022 9:32:04 AM PST by Bayard
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To: Political Junkie Too

I think that was Judge Emmett Sullivan wasnt it?


20 posted on 01/28/2022 9:37:55 AM PST by neverbluffer
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