The Center for Biological Diversity, the Sierra Club, and other conservation groups want a Louisiana federal court to reverse a magistrate judge’s decision and let them step into an oil and gas leasing dispute.
Industry challengers led by the American Petroleum Institute sued after the Biden administration implemented a pause on federal oil and gas leasing. The US District Court for the Western District of Louisiana blocked the federal government from continuing the pause in June 2021.
Magistrate Judge Kathleen Kay said the conservation groups couldn’t intervene in the case May 2 because their interests were “adequately represented by the ...