- A U.S. judge has blocked oil drilling planned in Wyoming because the government failed to adequately consider its impact on global warming - a decision that could complicate President Donald Trump’s broader efforts to expand oil, gas and coal output on America’s public lands.The ruling, by Judge Rudolph Contreras of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, was issued late on Tuesday, according to court documents.
“While the judge’s ruling relates to lands that were leased for fracking in Wyoming, the judge made clear the Interior Department and its Bureau of Land Management have to start accounting for the impacts of oil and gas development on a regional and national scale,” Jeremy Nichols, climate and energy program director for WildEarth, said in an email.
The lawsuit by WildEarth and Physicians for Social Responsibility alleged that the government, under former President Barack Obama, failed to comply with the National Environmental Policy Act by failing to account for emissions generated by oil and gas development when it leased parcels in the Western states of Utah, Wyoming and Colorado.
nicholagroom Governing from the judicial branch should be illegal.
nicholagroom Only 41 out of the 11,944 published climate papers Cook examined explicitly stated that Man caused most of the warming since 1950. the true consensus among published scientific papers is now demonstrated to be not 97.1%, as Cook had claimed, but only 0.3%. ClimateStrike MAGA
nicholagroom Hero judge!
nicholagroom Federal judges are out of control.
nicholagroom Judges don't made policy, the judge needs too stay in it's lane
nicholagroom Good! 👍👍😀
nicholagroom What a dope.
nicholagroom I like when Obama opened up places like public land for drilling...or the Antarctic... Nobody brings that up. It's so weird.
nicholagroom Whiskey Tango Foxtrot another unelected controlling our lives
nicholagroom That judge has to go
nicholagroom We really have some biased, stupid judges.
nicholagroom Trump’s agenda is sort of a pseudonym for ‘Anything that Obama stood for, I will destroy’ right?
nicholagroom 'upward it goes' away from the lib judge