A federal judge issued an order Tuesday allowing a case filed by South Carolina against the Trump administration over seismic testing for offshore oil exploration to proceed. Judge Richard Gergel dismissed several of South Carolina’s legal arguments but allowed the case to proceed under their claim that Trump’s executive order authorizing the exploration exceeded his authority under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act.
“South Carolina argues that what it alleges to be an unlawful Executive Order ‘served as the genesis’ for a variety of actions by various federal agencies, including the seismic testing surveys under challenge,” Gergel wrote.
