A US judge has canceled the sale of an offshore oil and gas lease on 80 million acres of land in the Gulf of Mexico.
The US District Judge Rudolph Contreras has ruled that regulators need to take a deeper look at the sale in terms of its impact on the climate. He released a 67-page decision on Thursday that said that the Interior Department had underestimated the impact of the leases on climate. The judge also said that further....
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