The suit is the latest dispute between the oil and gas industry and the administration of President Joe Biden over leasing federal lands and waters for energy development. Biden paused federal drilling auctions shortly after taking office in 2021 as part of his climate change agenda, but the year-old Inflation Reduction Act requires that the government hold the Gulf of Mexico lease sale planned for next month.
A Maui man was cited for harassing wildlife after officials said he “actively pursued” an adolescent humpback whale and a pod of spinner dolphins off the coast of the Big