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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Kevin McGill

Court ends challenge to 2021 Gulf oil and gas lease sale

Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

A lawsuit by environmentalists seeking to block the 2021 sale of Gulf of Mexico oil and gas leases auctioned off by the federal government was rejected Friday by a federal appeals court in Washington.

Energy companies including Shell, BP, Chevron and ExxonMobil offered a combined $192 million for drilling rights on federal oil and gas reserves in the Gulf of Mexico.

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