{"id":129596,"date":"2022-08-21T11:11:06","date_gmt":"2022-08-21T15:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=129596"},"modified":"2022-08-20T14:49:16","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T18:49:16","slug":"a-federal-district-court-has-blocked-bidens-moratorium-on-new-federal-oil-and-gas-leasing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=129596","title":{"rendered":"A Federal District Court has blocked Biden’s moratorium on new federal oil and gas leasing"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Judge Terry Doughty, of the US District Court, Western District of Louisiana, issued a permanent injunction against Biden’s moratorium. The moratorium intended to tackle the “climate crisis”. It ordered the Department of Interior to pause new leases on oil and natural gas.<\/p>\n

From Fox News:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Doughty wrote that President Biden “lacked any authority” to implement the policy under the Mineral Leasing Act (MLA) and Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA) which regulate federal leasing on public lands and waters.<\/p>\n

“The Court finds Section 208 of Executive Order 14008 is ultra vires, beyond the authority of the President of the United States, and in violation of the OCSLA and the MLA,” he wrote in the opinion. “Even the President cannot make significant changes to the OCSLA and\/or the MLA that Congress did not delegate.”<\/p>\n

Biden issued Executive Order 14008 — titled the “Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad” — on Jan. 27, 2021, days after taking office. The action ordered the Department of the Interior (DOI) to pause new oil and natural gas leases, a policy Biden pledged to pursue during his 2020 campaign, while it conducts a review of the federal leasing program.<\/p>\n

The DOI completed the review in late November.<\/p>\n

“President Biden’s executive order to choke off energy development didn’t just increase prices and hurt American families — it was flatly illegal,” Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen said in a statement after Doughty issued his ruling Thursday. “This decision is a victory for the rule of law and the workers and the rural communities who depend on the energy industry.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fox News has the article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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