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A Trump Win Would Threaten Historic Climate Progress in North Carolina
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this post was submitted on 23 Oct 2024
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They did try an end to drilling permits, and lost in court — the US court system considers drilling rights to be a property right once you have a lease, so you can't easily just say no.
They then cut the issuance of leases to the congressionally-mandated minimum.
numerical non-graph form of the data is here
I've never seen this chart. What a story!
Yeah, there has been no press coverage of it whatsoever; there's one substack post showing a year-old version of it.