The Biden administration has advanced global warming by opening up 80 million acres of the Gulf of Mexico for oil drilling leases. Immediately following, Earthjustice filed the lawsuit in federal court in the District of Columbia on behalf of Healthy Gulf, Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, and the Center for Biological Diversity. It was filed against Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management following the notice of lease sale 257.
Brettny Hardy, Senior Attorney at EarthJustice Oceans Program, discusses the recklessness and nearsightedness of this action in light of recent world-wide wildfires and aftermath of hurricane Ida, as well as other climate-related catastrophes.