（彭博社）“环保组织起诉拜登政府，阻止其重启允许在西部各州公共土地上进行新石油钻探的计划。

塞拉俱乐部、生物多样性中心和其他八个国家和地区环保组织表示，政府出售 173 个石油和天然气租赁权的计划违反了美国环境法。 

2021 年上任一周后，总统乔·拜登暂停了石油和天然气租赁的销售，并命令内政部评估新钻探的环境成本，包括全球变暖的成本。

五个月后，路易斯安那州的一名联邦法官宣布暂停令无效。四月份，随着汽油价格上涨，政府宣布了新的租赁销售计划。

周二向华盛顿联邦法院提起的诉讼将内政部和土地管理局列为被告。怀俄明州的租赁销售于周三开始。

该案是达科他州资源委员会诉内政部，22-cv-01853，美国哥伦比亚特区地方法院（华盛顿）。

(Bloomberg) — Environmental groups sued the Biden administration to block its revival of plans to allow new oil drilling on public land in western states.

The Sierra Club, Center for Biological Diversity and eight other national and regional environmental groups said the administration’s plan to sell 173 oil and gas leases violates the U.S. environmental laws. 

A week after taking office in 2021, President Joe Biden paused the sale of oil and gas leases and ordered the Interior Department to assess the environmental costs of new drilling, including on global warming.

Five months later, a federal judge in Louisiana invalidated the moratorium. In April, with gas prices rising at the pump, the administration announced plans for the new lease sales.

The complaint filed Tuesday in Washington federal court names the Interior Department and the Bureau of Land Management as defendants. The lease sales began in Wyoming on Wednesday.

The case is Dakota Resource Council v. Department of the Interior, 22-cv-01853, U.S. District Court, District of Columbia (Washington).