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Seventeen business and industry groups from the Houma-Thibodaux area and across Louisiana sent a letter today to President Joe Biden asking him to rescind his newly imposed restrictions on new oil leases in the Gulf of Mexico.
Biden enacted a 60-day ban Jan. 21 on new oil and gas drilling permits and leases for federal lands and waters, including the Gulf. He followed Jan. 27 with an indefinite ban on new leases in the Gulf and on federal lands.
Officials say the pause is necessary as the administration works to control climate change and its resulting pollution, rising seas and other harmful effects on the nation and world.
Tyler Gray, president of the Louisiana Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association, said the action will cost jobs in communities like Houma-Thibodaux and Lafayette, which are heavily dependent on offshore jobs.
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President Joe Biden issues 60-day ban on new oil and gas drilling permits in Gulf of Mexico
Meanwhile, two dozen Democratic senators urged the new administration to enact tougher restrictions on air pollution created by oil and gas production.
By Keith Magill and Adrian Hedden
Gannett Network
Newly inaugurated President Joe Biden enacted a 60-day ban today on new oil and gas drilling permits and leases for federal lands and waters, including the Gulf of Mexico.
Reaction was swift from oil industry advocates locally and across the U.S.
“Producing American energy is the heartbeat of Gulf coast local communities from Golden Meadow to Galveston,” Lori LeBlanc, executive director of the Thibodaux-based Gulf Economic Survival Team, said in a prepared statement. “This act of prohibiting leasing and permitting in all areas of the outer continental shelf in the Gulf of Mexico is extremely short-sighted an