{"id":41155,"date":"2021-01-28T11:40:03","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T16:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=41155"},"modified":"2021-01-28T11:40:03","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T16:40:03","slug":"let-the-lawsuits-begin-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=41155","title":{"rendered":"Let The Lawsuits Begin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/biden-administration-sued-for-halting-oil-and-gas-leasing-on-federal-lands_3674512.html?utm_source=newsnoe&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=breaking-2021-01-27-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Epoch Times<\/a> reported that Western Energy Alliance, a group representing fossil fuel producers on federal lands, has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Wyoming stating that the President does not have the authority to ban leasing on public lands.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cThe law is clear. Presidents don\u2019t have authority to ban leasing on public lands. All Americans own the oil and natural gas beneath public lands, and Congress has directed them to be responsibly developed on their behalf,\u201d Alliance President Kathleen Sgamma said in a statement, according to The Washington Times. \u201cDrying up new leasing puts future development as well as existing projects at risk. President Biden cannot simply ignore laws in effect for over half a century.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The executive order, Sgamma said, violates the Mineral Leasing Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, and the Federal Lands Policy and Management Act.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The lawsuit argues that the administration\u2019s suspension of the federal oil and gas leasing program is \u201can unsupported and unnecessary action that is inconsistent with the Secretary\u2019s statutory obligations\u201d and is \u201cboth arbitrary and capricious.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article continues:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Dan Naatz of the Independent Petroleum Association of America said in a separate <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/01\/27\/biden-pitches-green-new-deal-like-2t-environmental-plan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a>: \u201cDo not be fooled, this is a ban [on drilling]. The Biden administration\u2019s plan to obliterate the jobs of American oil and gas explorers and producers has been on clear display.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>What\u2019s more, according to Sgamma, the order would also put at risk $8.8 billion in conservation revenue that is funded in part by mineral development on federal property.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cBiden\u2019s ban is an overreach meant to satisfy the environmental left, but it would seriously harm the livelihoods of tens of thousands of westerners and put at risk millions more as state services become unfunded,\u201d she said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The order doesn\u2019t affect existing oil and gas leases, which can last 10 years, officials have said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The courts are not the ideal way to reign in an overreaching President. I am sure our Founding Fathers would be appalled. However, I suspect they would be equally appalled at what President Biden has done in only a week to Americans attempting to earn a living.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday The Epoch Times reported that Western Energy Alliance, a group representing fossil fuel producers on federal lands, has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Wyoming stating that the President does not have the authority to ban &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=41155\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13393,13396,13395,13397,12407,13394],"class_list":["post-41155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-drilling-on-federal-lands","tag-federal-lands-policy-and-management-act","tag-mineral-leasing-act","tag-national-environmental-policy-act","tag-the-epoch-times","tag-western-energy-alliance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41156,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41155\/revisions\/41156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}