{"id":406895,"date":"2021-03-25T08:48:01","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T03:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=406895"},"modified":"2021-03-25T09:30:30","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T04:00:30","slug":"fourteen-us-states-sue-biden-administration-over-oil-and-gas-leasing-pause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/fourteen-us-states-sue-biden-administration-over-oil-and-gas-leasing-pause\/","title":{"rendered":"Fourteen US states sue Biden administration over oil and gas leasing pause"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211; Fourteen U.S. states including Louisiana and Wyoming filed lawsuits on Wednesday against President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration, challenging his pause on new oil and gas leasing on federal lands and waters. <\/p>\n<p>The legal actions, which seek to restore regular federal drilling auctions, came a day before the administration is set to launch a review of the oil and gas leasing program. <\/p>\n<p>Biden, a Democrat, in January signed an executive order putting on hold new leasing pending that review. During his election campaign, he pledged to end new federal leasing as part of a sweeping plan to address climate change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211; Fourteen U.S. states including Louisiana and Wyoming filed lawsuits on Wednesday against President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration, challenging his pause on new oil and gas leasing on federal lands and waters. The legal actions, which seek to restore regular federal drilling auctions, came a day before the administration is set to launch a review of the oil and gas leasing program. Biden, a Democrat, in January signed an executive order putting on hold new leasing pending that review. During his election campaign, he pledged to end new federal leasing as part of a sweeping plan to address climate change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}