Federal Judge Cancels Biden’s Last Gulf Lease Sale

A federal district judge has issued a ruling against a Gulf lease sale conducted by the Biden administration in 2023, saying the Interior Department was in violation of the Environmental Policy Act by failing to take into account the auction’s impact on the climate and whale populations. Bloomberg reported that Judge Amit Mehta had not proposed any corrective action, leaving open the question of what the agencies responsible for the lease sale should do next. Per the report, options include invalidating the leases that were sold or revising…