Posted on 02/24/2022 9:09:59 AM PST by Enlightened1
The Biden administration is delaying decisions on new oil and gas leases and permits after a Louisiana federal judge blocked officials from using higher cost estimates of climate change when making rules for polluting industries.
The leasing pause is an unintended result of the Feb. 11 decision by U.S. District Judge James Cain, who sided with a group GOP-led states and argued that the Biden administration’s attempt to raise the real cost of climate change would hike energy costs and hurt state revenues from energy production.
The ruling has prompted delays and uncertainty across at least four federal agencies that were using higher cost estimates of greenhouse gas emissions in decisions, including plans to restrict methane emissions from natural gas drilling and a grant program for transit projects. It also continues a contentious legal battle that has hampered Biden’s plans to address climate change.
One of the most significant and unintended outcomes of the ruling is the government’s pause on new oil and gas leases and permits to drill on federal lands and waters. Lease sales in states across the U.S. West, including Montana and Wyoming, are now delayed.
“Agencies are experiencing significant delays and wastes of resources as they scramble to rehash economic and environmental analyses prepared in connection with a broad array of government actions,” the Department of Justice wrote in a legal filing on Saturday.
“Work surrounding public-facing rules, grants, leases, permits, and other projects has been delayed or stopped altogether so that agencies can assess whether and how they can proceed,” the department wrote.
Only a traitor throttles a country’s energy industry, especially if they are crowing about needing to start a war while doing it.
It is as if Biden is intentionally trying to destroy the United States.
Idiot Biden wants to buy more oil and gas from Russia.
Fuggin pants-pooping, ice cream eating, child molesting moron.
Yep, real focus and doing everything you can for the American citizen hurting from the fuel prices..
Brandon you ignorant putz!
Biden is doing squat, his handlers run the show.
Washington DC is completely blinded by their woke ideology.
Exactly. There are thousands of traitors behind the scenes making this all happen.
Heaven forbid we use our own natural resources any longer. Grrrrrrr! Time for another screed to my two useless senatorettes. I know, crickets ..............
“Putin is invading Ukraine? That’s it, I’m imposing sanctions...on Americans!” ~ #DumbF***ingSh*tHeadJoeBiden
Dementia Joe: “I’m doing everything in my power to bring down gas prices.” ...
too bad the fake stream media NEVER mentions what Dementia Joe is ACTUALLY doing ...
It is as if Biden is intentionally trying to destroy the United States.
“It is as if Biden is intentionally trying to destroy the United States.”
He is, and has been for years.
Biden is doing squat, his handlers run the show.
= = =
Literally!
Lets Go....you know the thing...
Barack O’Muslim and ValJar.
They’re Dementia Joe’s handlers.
Well the Democrats’ foot soldiers (Antifa) did say to burn it all down.
Before you pay for the cost of climate change you must identify what climate change has actually happened. I don’t think they have done that. Anything attributed to climate change could be explained differently so it is difficult or impossible to prove.
Great timing! “Our sanctions are hobbled by our reliance on foreign oil and gas!” “Don’t bother me; I’m busy hobbling our supply of oil and gas!”
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