Louisiana Solicitor General Elizabeth Murrill told Newsweek Biden's administration had 'attacked the entire fossil fuel industry' by trying to prevent the sale. But environmental campaigners want Biden to do more.
The Department of Interior's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, which is coordinating the auction, has been contacted for comment.News that the Biden administration was"complying with a U.S. District Court's injunction regarding [the auction] while the government appeals the decision."
Kristen Monsell, a lawyer for the nonprofit Center for Biological Diversity said the preliminary injunction should only halt Biden's executive order to pause leasing, and in"in no way compels" BOEM to hold the auction. Her group was among 267 organizations which signed a letter last week pleading Biden to halt the sale. They want the Department of Interior to examine the latest evidence on climate change and the impacts of lease sales to the Gulf's environment"as it is legally required to do."
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