Oil And Gas Leases

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Texas AG joins coalition to open offshore oil and gas leases

By Staff reports | Friday, Jun 17, 2022 @ 2:53pm

AUSTIN – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton joined a multistate amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, urging reversal of a lower court’s decision to vacate the largest offshore oil and gas lease sale in U.S. history, a press release states.
Court issues nationwide injunction blocking Biden’s pause on new oil and gas leases

By David Yates | Thursday, Jun 17, 2021 @ 12:16pm

AUSTIN – Attorney General Paxton announced that a district judge has issued a nationwide preliminary injunction on the Biden Administration’s oil and gas leasing moratorium, which intended to put a pause on the sale of new oil and gas leases on federal public lands and offshore waters by an executive order issued on Jan. 27.