WASHINGTON — A federal judge in New Orleans on Tuesday blocked a six-month moratorium on deep-water drilling projects that the Obama administration imposed in response to the vast oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
The White House swiftly said the administration would appeal the decision. …
Judge Feldman — a 1983 appointee of former President Ronald Reagan — wrote that the Obama administration had failed to justify the need for the sweeping suspension, which he characterized as “generic, indeed punitive.”…
state of Louisiana filed a brief supporting the lawsuit, arguing that the moratorium would damage its economy.
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