Hocus pocus Mike Hocus pocusWASHINGTON (AP) — A federal court has rejected a plan to lease millions of acres in the Gulf of Mexico for offshore oil drilling, saying the Biden administration did not adequately take into account the lease sale's effect on planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions, violating a bedrock environmental law.
Similar claims in two other cases, in Alaska, were rejected by federal courts after challenges from environmentalists.