Ruling clears Biden's 2021 pause on new oil, gas leases
FILE - A rig and supply vessel are pictured in the Gulf of Mexico, off the cost of Louisiana on April 10, 2011. A judge’s order that forced the Biden administration to resume sales of oil and gas leases on federal land and waters was vacated on Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022, by a federal appeals court in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A judge's order that forced the Biden administration to resume sales of oil and gas leases on federal land and waters was vacated Wednesday by a federal appeals court in New Orleans.
It was at least a temporary victory for President Joe Biden but the immediate effect was unclear...
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