Trump's fossil fuel agenda gets pushback from federal judges

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Matthew Brown, Associated Press Updated 4:34 pm CDT, Thursday, May 28, 2020

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Federal courts have delivered a string of rebukes to the Trump administration over what they found were failures to protect the environment and address climate change as it promotes fossil fuel interests and the extraction of natural resources from public lands.

Judges have ruled administration officials ignored or downplayed potential environmental damage in lawsuits over oil and gas leases, coal mining and pipelines to transport fuels across the U.S., according to an Associated Press review of more than a dozen major environmental cases.

The latest ruling against the administration came Thursday when an appeals court refused to revive a permitting program for oil and gas pipelines that a lower court had canceled.

Actions taken by the courts have ranged from orders for more environmental analysis to the unprecedented cancellation of oil and gas leases across hundreds of thousands of acres in Western states.

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/article/Trump-s-fossil-fuel-agenda-gets-pushback-from-15300585.php

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1. WOW! it's not like we needed more of either at this point.

Looks like Trump will have to declare the permitting process be done under the DHA authority as a national security issue so he can by-pass those pesky environmental laws. The way he did for that Wall thingy.

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2. BOEM Holding Up Off-Shore Wind Farms

Large wind projects off the coast of New England are being held up with Environmental Impact Studies while oil projects are getting fast tracked.