Biden Admin Uses ‘Sue And Settle’ Lawfare To Enact Radical Climate Policies Voters Reject
By Marc Morano
March 1, 2024
10:26 am
https://thefederalist.com/2024/02/27/biden-admin-uses-sue-and-settle-lawfare-to-enact-radical-climate-policies-voters-reject/Through ‘sue and settle,’ Democrats advance policy goals that cannot be achieved through normal democratic channels.
BY: JAMES VARNEY
When the Biden administration announced in 2022 that it would remove some 4 million acres of federal land in Western states from oil and gas exploration, environmental groups hailed the decision as a milestone in their fight against global warming.
“With the oil and gas industry bent on despoiling American’s public lands and fueling the climate crisis, this is a critical opportunity for the Biden administration to chart a new path toward clean energy and independence from fossil fuels,” said Jeremy Nichols, a director with WildEarth Guardians.
But Nichols could just as easily have slapped himself on the back: The administration’s move was part of a private settlement of a lawsuit filed by WildEarth and others over the objections of energy consortiums, whose efforts to intervene in the matter were dismissed.
https://www.climatedepot.com/2024/03/01/biden-admin-uses-sue-and-settle-lawfare-to-enact-radical-climate-policies-voters-reject/
