A group of Republican attorneys general filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration over its executive action pausing new oil and gas drilling on federal land.
In their lawsuit, filed (pdf) on March 24 in the District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, 13 state attorneys general sought to end the suspension of issuing new oil and gas leases on federal land and water. President Joe Biden signed the executive orders as part of his attempt to address climate change on Jan. 27. Wyoming’s attorney general filed a separate lawsuit in a court in its own state.
