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.

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.

  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    510·
    2 days ago

    In many ways, the ban is symbolic… On Monday Mr. Trump called Mr. Biden’s move “ridiculous” and said he would revoke the ban. “I’ll unban it immediately,” he said on the Hugh Hewitt radio program.

    Couldn’t genocide joe have done this like 4 years ago?

    And if dude can just do this, can’t trump just undo?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_posturing

    • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
      121·
      2 days ago

      No, the law here allows the President to designate areas as off-limits, but doesn’t provide for the President reversing such a decision. It would take either Congress changing the rules, or the courts to invalidate the rule.

      So it’s a bit more than posturing.

      And he didn’t need to four years ago, because he could simply not issue new drilling leases in these places.

      Besides, it’s not like Biden will ever run for office again. Posturing is worthless to him right now.

      • AA5B@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 days ago

        I thought there was like a 60 day window where the new president can just say “nah” but anything established longer than that required a process to discourage jerking people around

        • FlowVoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          2 days ago

          That window is provided by the CRA and only applies to agency rule-making, which is not the process that Biden used here.

          Also the CRA does not allow the President to say “nah”. It allows Congress to say “nah”.

        • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
          1·
          2 days ago

          There is a window, but it requires a vote by both houses of congress. Offshore drilling bans are popular, so there’s a decent chance of peeling off a couple of Republicans and preventing it from passing.

      • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        I find it amusing when liberals believe the rule of law applies to fascism, instead of being dictated by fascism.

        Laws only matter if they are enforced.