Importantly, the law authorizing this doesn’t authorize the president to reverse the ban. Trump has used it before too.
So reversing this likely means an unusual ruling from the courts, or getting congress to change things. Both possible, but take a lot more effort than simply issuing an executive order.
People should read the first chapter of “The Ministry for the Future”. People will start dieing by the millions due to heat waves, it’s going to happen even if we stop burning oil now because of how long the feedback loop takes. Drilling more lengthens this trend into a future where billions die.
This doesn’t mean the overall system is stable; there will still be ice melting (albeit more slowly than if we kept on burning stuff) but it’s a vast improvement over the alternative.
He is relying on an obscure provision of a 1953 law, the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, which he says gives him the authority for this executive order.
He could have done this the entire time!?!?
He could have, but didn’t need to; he could simply choose to not issue leases in these places.
Yes…that oil increase is largely on private land, which means the President has had limited power to do anything about it
The ban affects the entire Eastern Seaboard, the Pacific Coast along California, Oregon and Washington, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the Northern Bering Sea.
So that basically just leaves the Texas and Louisiana Gulf coast, and part of the Alaskan coast?
I don’t see that in the list, but Hawaii has a very different geology which makes oil much less likely there
Sure—I thought the previous comment was just trying to identify any US coastlines not on the list, not filtering by reason for exclusion.
Hilarious. Biden oversaw record oil and gas drilling throughout his entire presidency, dwarfing that of W, Obama, and Trump.
Now he was to slow things down so Dems can score political points when Repugs immediately open the drilling floodgates. Seriously pathetic Biden, you could have actually done something for the environment during the past 4 years but chose corporate profits over people’s lives instead, every time.
This feels kinda like bike shedding to bring up currently with the executive, legislative, and judicial branches all bought and paid for by oligarchs, but isn’t that executive branch overreach where the legislative branch should be who is determining this?
