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President Joe Biden has been monitoring climate change-affected areas in the United States, warning that climate change is a “scarlet” emergency in the world. And yet, its managers are continuing to upgrade oil plans and are now planning to expand maritime drilling.
The White House says the court is opposed and is asking government officials to buy more than 78 million acres of Gulf of Mexico for oil. Environmentalists, however, confirm that state laws give regulators the opportunity to act or not.
Instead, Biden officials have instead used this power to officially declare the warnings contained in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports “They Give No Reason” reviewing the piercing system.
With the help of the nonprofit organization Earthjustice, several ecological groups and the Gulf have it now initiated a lawsuit against regulators to prevent Gulf trade. The complaint alleges that the environmental analysis leading to the sale of labor is based on archaic and unconventional science, in violation of state law.
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“We have been patient with his supervisors,” said Hallie Templeton, deputy attorney general at Friends of the Earth, one of the environmental groups involved in the lawsuit. “The holidays are over. Now it is September, he has been in office for eight months. It’s time to dump her and move on. ”
It’s too expensive
When Biden last week talked about the weather during a visit to the East Coast region hit by Hurricane Ida, his supervisors were underestimating the message, and moving forward with oil sales in the Gulf of Mexico that began under the leadership of Donald Trump.
The announcement of the work to sell another drill came recently reports from the IPCC, which warned of climate change if world powers did not change drastically. The report criticized the problem especially on human activities, such as oil. The UN World Meteorological Organization recently released a study showing that natural disasters are the result of climate change it has increased fivefold For the past forty years.
At a press conference this week, Biden also endorsed climate change, call for America to “find the real deal” for the problem.
“The worst weather affected America last year with $ 99 billion,” he said. “And it breaks the record this year; will be more than $ 100 billion. ”
‘Billions of Dollars Priced’
Back in January, a week after taking office, Biden ordered a ban on “new oil and natural gas in state-owned or offshore waters, pending the completion of re-exploration and re-enactment of oil and gas permits and leases.” As part of the ordinance, the Secretary of the Interior department was instructed to review existing oil removal certificates.
Shortly after the order, officials announced they were Dismissal of the planned sales of 78.2 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico, before the project began in March. Facilitators too it’s too late for people to explain which was about to sell a million-acre sale at Cook Inlet in Alaska. Subsequently, the Interior Department Prohibition of commercial sale in public places in Colorado, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming.
The rule was a good effort a strong campaign promise Biden made the final attempt to drill into the public service, which he oversees about a quarter about the U.S. gas industry.
In response to Biden’s directive, 13 Republicans say – Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Louisiana, Georgia, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, and West Virginia – appealed to regulators to resume lending programs in the Gulf of Mexico, Alaska, and Western States. Wyoming also filed a special suit.
The state attorneys who took part in the trial were all members of Old oil bills Republican Attorneys General Association. Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall is the chairman of the institutional policy.
In June, Louisiana’s Trump-appointed judge, Terry Doughty, given The 13th says the first national law against the suspension of Biden, mandating that the lending program be restarted. Doughty ruled that the regulators were banned mainly from using it in connection with trade deals in the Gulf and Alaska.
“Millions and perhaps billions of dollars are at stake,” Doughty wrote.
Following the ruling, the Republican states involved in the case filed a motion to dismiss the Interior Ministry’s refusal to comply with the law. This forced the department to sell trade in the Gulf of Mexico.
In response, supervisors sent a notification that it was interesting Law of the judge, as well as the defendant in short criticizing the Republican petition on the grounds that the court’s ruling “does not compel the Internal Court to act in the interests of the plaintiffs, regardless of the length of time stated by the plaintiffs.”
However, on September 1, a few days after the letter was written, the White House filed a new petition Choice History on the internet stating that it will continue with the sale of the Gulf of Mexico, and that the IPCC report does not change its views on the environment.
“The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has released a new report outlining the rapid climate change in all parts of the world,” the report said.
‘Sharing All the Parts’
Environmentalists say officials can be more courageous in piercing public and maritime areas.
“If the supervisors do this [order], why not expect them to continue as the appeal progresses? ”Templeton says. “The most disturbing thing that’s going on here, it’s like they’re just going both ways.”
Despite this, Brettny Hardy, Attorney General at Earthjustice, says state law gives the government the opportunity to agree or not.
“Initially, the reason they gave when they banned their sale was because it was stopped by supervisors,” he says. “As a result, they may not choose to give up rental property for the first time, but may have to cancel the sale for a number of reasons, including poor environmental considerations.”
According to Hardy, the environmental terms required to sell in the Gulf are now obsolete because they were finalized years ago, already recent advances in science making which is closely related to human activity and the complexities of climate change.
Templeton says management’s view that the new IPCC report “does not provide sufficient reasons” for new environmental assessments is not logical.
“Why rely on a five-year-old analysis to continue this to allow the law to become clearer [that] should you analyze and rely on the best science? ”He says. “We have a science since 2016 that shows that climate change is worse than ever and it is not too late for us to change course.”