Ha! Two defeats for the Obama in the same day. Things are looking up.
(MSNBC) –CHEYENNE, Wyo. — A judge on Friday threw out Obama administration rules that sought to slow down expedited environmental review of oil and gas drilling on federal land.
U.S. District Judge Nancy Freudenthal ruled in favor of a petroleum industry group, the Western Energy Alliance, in its lawsuit against the federal government, including Interior Secretary Ken Salazar.
The ruling reinstates Bush-era expedited oil and gas drilling under provisions called categorical exclusions on federal lands nationwide, Freudenthal said.
The government argued that oil and gas companies had no case because they didn’t show how the new rules, implemented by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service last year, had created delays and added to the cost of drilling.
Freudenthal rejected that argument.
“Western Energy has demonstrated through its members recognizable injury,” she said. “Those injuries are supported by the administrative record.”
An attorney for the government declined to comment but Kathleen Sgamma, director of government and public affairs for the Denver-based Western Energy Alliance, praised the ruling.
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Wow there is Justice in this Nation.
How many States has this Criminal Resident and His Minion Eric Sued so Far???
They will appeal the ruling for another delay to dis-employ more workers of this Great Nation.
Watch & see they are Playing the court system – even though he is a failed law student.
very sad that a federal judge has to decide on common sense energy drilling.Lets make some money!
The basic reasons for un-employment, and economic stagnation, recession/depression, are over regulation by big government.
We need to dismantle the shackles that bind our businesses, and that force out-sourcing of American jobs to foreign states.
2012 is the last chance for Americans to dump losers like Obama, and get with de-regulation, The Fair Tax…