The Law of Unintended Consequences: Greenhouse Gas Ruling Halts Work on Federal Oil & Gas Leases

SUGAR LAND, TEXAS--March 9, 2022--Written by John Egan for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--What the energy gods give, they also can take back.

Oil & gas interests, Republican lawmakers and climate change doubters cheered a ruling early last month that stopped the Biden administration from factoring its "social cost of greenhouse gas emissions" into federal regulatory decisions. However, the court ruling caused the federal government to halt leasing on some projects.