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.
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.
https://www.vox.com/climate/24098983/biden-oil-production-climate-fossil-fuel-renewables
Yes…that oil increase is largely on private land, which means the President has had limited power to do anything about it