Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards is taking his case against the Biden administration’s anti-oil and gas steps directly to some of its leaders. He’s at odds with the President’s move to put the fossil fuel industries in the bull’s eye and wants the White House to reconsider its ban on new oil and gas drilling leases in the Gulf of Mexico.
It raises an intriguing political view because Edwards is a Democrat and now is at odds with his own party reported the Associated Press.
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Gov. John Bel Edwards disagrees with President Joe Biden’s targeting of fossil fuel industries and wants the White House to reconsider its decision to pause new oil and gas drilling leases in the Gulf of Mexico, the Louisiana governor’s administration said Wednesday.
Biden’s approach to oil and gas strikes at one of Louisiana’s economic engines and an industry that is a chief financial backer of the state’s coastal restoration work, putting the Democratic governor at odds with a president within his own party.
The governor’s top lawyer, coastal adviser and natural resources secretary told state lawmakers that Edwards thinks Biden’s moratorium on new oil and gas drilling leases on federal land and waters is the wrong approach to combat climate change.