Poor Brandon just can't catch a break.
Biden is forced to follow current law (drilling permits) and he runs afoul of his own constituents.
Environmental groups sued the Biden administration on Wednesday, saying that its decision to approve more than 3,500 oil and natural-gas drilling permits in New Mexico and Wyoming violated environmental laws by not taking into account the impact on climate change.
In their lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., the conservation nonprofits Center for Biological Diversity and WildEarth Guardians say the approved oil and gas wells will release as much as 600 million metric tons of greenhouse-gas emissions, worsening climate change and damaging U.S. ecosystems.
The federal permitting agency “has admitted that continued oil and gas exploitation is a significant cause of the climate crisis, yet the agency continues to recklessly issue thousands of new oil and gas drilling permits,” said Kyle Tisdel, climate and energy program director with the Western Environmental Law Center, which filed the lawsuit on behalf of the nonprofits.
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The lawsuit also said federal officials ignored how more greenhouse-gas pollution would harm climate-imperiled plants and animals, violating the Endangered Species Act. It identified about 150 species “for which climate change is a primary driver of their decline,” including Hawaiian songbirds, polar bears and coral reefs.
“Fossil fuels are driving the extinction crisis, and the Bureau of Land Management is making things worse by failing to protect these imperiled species,” said Brett Hartl, government-affairs director at the Center for Biological Diversity.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/environmen ... listb_pos2