Louisiana industry blasts court decision halting Gulf oil leases

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A federal court has rejected a plan to lease millions of acres in the Gulf of Mexico for offshore oil drilling, saying the Biden administration did not take into account the lease sale’s effect on planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions, violating federal law, The Associated Press reports.


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