Biden Administration Sued Over Pending Sale of Oil, Gas Leases

Environmental groups sued the Biden Administration in an attempt to halt the pending sale of offshore oil and gas leases on more than 80 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico, that they said will magnify greenhouse emissions worldwide.

U.S. President Joe Biden had suspended the sale of new oil and gas permits after taking office in January. But a federal judge in Louisiana ordered the sales restarted two months ago. In response, the Interior Department on Tuesday posted at least 750,000 acres in nine states for possible inclusion in oil and gas lease sales.

The full lease sale would ...