{"id":29642,"date":"2021-03-26T09:55:49","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T15:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/?p=29642"},"modified":"2021-03-26T09:55:55","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T15:55:55","slug":"states-sue-biden-over-oil-and-gas-leasing-moratorium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/news\/states-sue-biden-over-oil-and-gas-leasing-moratorium\/","title":{"rendered":"States sue Biden over oil and gas leasing moratorium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Fourteen <\/strong><strong>US <\/strong><strong>states filed suit on Wednesday against President Joe Biden\u2019s moratorium on new oil and natural gas leases on public lands and waters.<\/strong><\/p><p>Fourteen US states filed suit on Wednesday against President&nbsp;Joe Biden\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/01\/27\/biden-suspends-oil-and-gas-drilling-in-series-of.html\">moratorium on new oil and natural gas leases<\/a>&nbsp;on public lands and waters.<\/p><p>A coalition of 13 states, led by Louisiana,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/agjefflandry.com\/Files\/Article\/10878\/Documents\/LAvBidenStamped.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">filed one lawsuit<\/a>&nbsp;on Wednesday while Wyoming filed a separate lawsuit. The states in Louisiana\u2019s suit are as follows: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah and West Virginia. All 14 states have Republican attorneys general.<\/p><p>Biden signed an executive order Jan. 27 to suspend new leasing as part of a series of actions to address&nbsp;climate change&nbsp;and transition the US economy away from fossil fuel production and toward renewable energy.<\/p><p>\u201cThis moratorium might make for a nice headline about fighting climate change, but the real consequences of the action are far from certain and far from uniformly environmentally friendly,\u201d the Wyoming lawsuit said.&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fourteen US states filed suit on Wednesday against President Joe  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":29650,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1338],"tags":[4410],"class_list":["post-29642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-biden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29654,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29642\/revisions\/29654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}