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.

  • crusa187@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    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.