A federal judge on Monday issued a nationwide injunction on President Joe Biden’s executive order to halt oil and gas operations on all federal lands in the name of fighting so-called climate change.
Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry led the lawsuit joined by 12 other states and reacted to the court’s decision, calling it good for America.
“This is a victory not only for the rule of law, but also for the thousands of workers who produce affordable energy for Americans,” Landry said. “The President’s Executive Order abandons middle-class jobs, cripples our economy, and hits everyday Americans where it hurts the most – their pocketbooks.”
Moreover, Landry said Biden’s order actually hurts the environment.
“What’s more it attacks Louisiana’s coast by reducing the revenue and royalties used for coastal restoration and hurricane protection,” Landry said. A press release stated:
In last week’s oral arguments, lawyers from Attorney General Landry’s Office said that Biden Officials cannot legally halt all lease sales because Congress, by statute, has commanded that such lease sales happen on a regular basis. They cited the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act and the Mineral Leasing Act as explicitly prohibiting the Biden Ban.
“By executive fiat, Joe Biden and his administration have single-handedly driven the price of energy up – costing the American people where it hurts most, in their pocketbooks,” Landry said when the lawsuit was filed.
“Biden’s executive orders abandon middle-class jobs at a time when America needs them most and put our energy security in the hands of foreign countries, many of whom despise America’s greatness.”
The lawsuit stated, in part:
The Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act and Mineral Leasing Act set out specific statutory duties requiring executive agencies to further the expeditious and safe development of the abundant energy. In compliance with those statutes, the Department of the Interior has for decades issued leases for the development of oil and natural gas on public lands and offshore waters.
“For decades, Congress has embraced responsible development of our natural resources as a means of achieving energy independence – a matter of national security,” Landry said. “They have discarded vulnerable dependence on foreign oil, which is why the court should reject the Biden Ban.”
In addition to Louisiana, the following states joined in the lawsuit filed on Wednesday in the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, and West Virginia.
Biden and other Democrat leftists claim that the fossil fuel industry must be shut down to save the planet from so-called climate change.
Under former President Donald Trump, the United States was energy independent for the first time since 1957 and no longer relied on foreign energy sources.
Since taking office, Biden has not only halted oil and gas production on public lands but also shut down the Keystone XL Pipeline, which created energy and jobs and benefited the economies of numerous western states with public land.
The case is Louisiana v. Biden, 2:21-cv-00778 U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana.
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Biden is going to just continue to dig the grave of his Dictatorship even more deeper then before his sucking up the the Eco-Freaks is going to Backfire on his real big to
When will it be officially determined to the public ignorant that there is no man made global warming or any other climate change caused by mankind?
Until that day finally arrives we will be battling the global elite a.k.a Biden’s puppeteers who will continue to claim ” climate change ” knowing that it is a false statement but knowing that there are enough ignorant people and people that know better but who will profit from the lie to worry about being stopped from there malicious greed.
Basic factor is that always, figures or claims about global warming always refer to
before pre-industrial times” as a basic starting point. This is in fact true: but what they do not state is that “pre-industrial times” means the Little Ice Age, Maunder and Dalton minima, about 1350 to about 1850. In other words, it was colder then than “normal” and has since then been recovering: global warming. The beginning of industry started round about the time the Little Ice Age began to slow down and stop. We humans had nothing to do with either the cold or the warming after it. The Little Ice Age was preceded by the medieval warm period, approx. 1100 to 1300. Hence the Climategate scandal where one or two emails said “we must get rid of the medieval warm period” by using “Mike’s nature trick” etc. (Michael Mann). There is seldom or never any media reference to the Little Ice Age – for a reason.