22 May 2022 1:19 pm
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 "social cost of carbon" estimate accounts for effects of events like droughts, wildfires, and storms that have grown more frequent and intense with climate change.In his order, Cain wrote that using such a metric in oil and gas lease reviews would "artificially increase the cost estimates of lease sales," which would directly impact states receiving bids and production royalties through energy production.Max Sarinsky, a senior attorney at the Institute for Policy Integrity at New York University School of Law, called Cain's ruling "legally incoherent," arguing that it's put federal agencies in a Catch-22 as they attempt to assess the cost of climate change in major decisions."There's a fair amount of legal precedent for these agencies to consider climate science," Sarinsky said. "And this injunction prevents them from using these climate estimates."Michael Freeman, a senior attorney at Earthjustice, said Cain's ruling was "deeply flawed and contained numerous legal and factual errors," and that the government's decision to delay new leases was unintended fallout."Louisiana, and the oil and gas industry, have tripped over their own feet in trying to force the federal government to rush full speed ahead with irresponsible oil and gas development," Freeman said.NEILCAR » 22 May 2022, 12:15 pm » wrote: ↑ China put 40 coal plants online last year ... net result is you didn't do anything about the worlds air pollution.
Dems cut off a pipeline (which has no to very low carbon emissions) in place of importing oil (at a higher cost) on ships which have very high carbon emissions...
Then the Dems raise the "carbon" tax on oil from $7/ton to $51/ton forcing oil prices even higher.
Then the Dems would give you a lease to drill for oil but not the permits ... further compounded the issue...
The Dems have screwed up the energy policy and have made every effort to harm the U.S. Citizen... hell even the lack of baby formula was caused by the biden team ,,,
"Ultimately, what Louisiana and the industry really want is for the federal government to just ignore climate change," Freeman said. "But the law doesn't let the government do that."Dominic Mancini, deputy administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs of the Office of Management and Budget, said that several agencies are experiencing delays in plans due to the ruling.Transportation Department officials, for instance, are worried about a delay to a federal grant program for rail and transit projects that could last for months.The order will also delay the Energy Department's court-ordered plan to issue energy conservation standards for manufactured housing, Mancini said, as well as a Bureau of Land Management plan to reduce natural gas waste on federal lands.Environmentalists and legal experts have sharply condemned Cain's ruling on the real cost of climate change and pointed to the irony of the delayed fossil fuel extraction as a result of the order.
Despite a campaign vow to stop drilling, Biden has approved more drilling permits on public lands per month than the Trump administration did during Donald Trump's first three years in office.