# I am the Watcher. I am your guide through this vast new twtiverse.
#
# Usage:
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/users View list of users and latest twt date.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/twt View all twts.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/mentions?uri=:uri View all mentions for uri.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/conv/:hash View all twts for a conversation subject.
#
# Options:
# uri Filter to show a specific users twts.
# offset Start index for quey.
# limit Count of items to return (going back in time).
#
# twt range = 1 3
# self = https://watcher.sour.is/conv/in74g4q
Revealed: Biden administration was not legally bound to auction gulf drilling rights
> The decision to go ahead with the sale has damaged Biden’s climate credentials after the Cop26 talks in Glasgow where he said the US would “lead by example” in slashing greenhouse gas emissions. The president, who has called the climate crisis an “existential threat” to the US, said in a Democratic primary debate last year that under his administration there would be “no more drilling, including offshore. No ability for the oil industry to continue to drill, period, ends, number one.”
>
> This jarring contradiction has alarmed even some of Biden’s 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 “deeply concerned” and “shocked” that the government is pushing ahead with the drilling “despite its own findings that the largest lease sale in history has not had an adequate environmental rights."
Unconscionable. :-( The US should have to fight for a seat at any climate conference from here on. Actions needed, 'cause their words mean nothing.
@jlj Don’t worry we (Australia) are just as bad if not worse. Australia is not taking climate change seriously at all and we continue to allow new gas and coal mines to be sprung up all over the country 🤦♂️
@jlj Don’t worry we (Australia) are just as bad if not worse. Australia is not taking climate change seriously at all and we continue to allow new gas and coal mines to be sprung up all over the country 🤦♂️