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Lancashire council is due to make a decision on both of its drilling applications in November.
Even so, the president in his climate address hinted that the pipeline would be approved, and presumably similar economic calculations would factor into other decisions, like speeding up federal approvals of drilling applications.
The agency, which imposed a six-month moratorium on all deepwater projects after the BP accident, has approved only four of 21 new shallow-water drilling applications since it issued new safety and environmental guidelines in late May.
Judge Martin Feldman, of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, said that the Interior Department was required to act on drilling applications "within a reasonable time".
And its own scientists have said that senior agency officials in recent years revised staff reports to eliminate environmental concerns that might have complicated oil-company drilling applications for offshore sites in waters near Alaska.
Chris John, a former Democratic member of Congress who is now president of the Louisiana Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association, a trade group, welcomed the decision but said he feared that a de facto moratorium would continue because of onerous new regulations and a shortage of government officials to process new drilling applications.
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