Wow: a new version of Telegram just popped up on F-Droid, and it includes Tap to Translate! Very cool, even if it uses Googul Translate. ;-)
Revealed: Biden administration was not legally bound to auction gulf drilling rights
The decision to go ahead with the sale has damaged Bidenâs climate credentials after the Cop26 talks in Glasgow where he said the US would âlead by exampleâ in slashing greenhouse gas emissions. The president, who has called the climate crisis an âexistential threatâ to the US, said in a Democratic primary debate last year that under his administration there would be âno more drilling, including offshore. No ability for the oil industry to continue to drill, period, ends, number one.â
This jarring contradiction has alarmed even some of Bidenâs closest allies, with three Democratic members of Congress filing a brief last week with the federal court calling for a halt to the gulf lease sales. The three admitted that they are âdeeply concernedâ and âshockedâ that the government is pushing ahead with the drilling âdespite its own findings that the largest lease sale in history has not had an adequate environmental rightsâ.â
Unconscionable. :-( The US should have to fight for a seat at any climate conference from here on. Actions needed, âcause their words mean nothing.