President Biden is expected to issue an executive order permanently banning new offshore oil and gas development in certain US coastal waters before leaving office.
Biden ’s handlers are having a busy few weeks pushing their agendas on the country before the new administration takes over. Next week, it is expected that Biden will issue an executive order permanently banning new offshore oil and gas development in certain U.S. coastal waters.
The order could come as Biden is set within days to issue the executive order barring the sale of new drilling rights in portions of the country’s outer continental shelf, according to people familiar with the effort who asked not to be named because the decision isn’t public. The move is certain to complicate President-elect Donald Trump’s ambitions to drive more domestic energy production. Unlike other executive actions that can be easily undone, Biden’s planned declaration is rooted in a 72-year-old law that gives the White House wide discretion to permanently protect U.S. waters from oil and gas leasing without explicitly empowering presidents to revoke the designations. The move responds to pressure from congressional Democrats and environmental groups who have lobbied Biden to “maximize permanent protections” against offshore drilling, arguing the action is essential to safeguard vulnerable coastal communities, protect marine ecosystems from oil spills and fight climate change.Scoop: President Biden is preparing to issue a decree permanently banning new offshore oil and gas development in some US coastal waters, locking in difficult-to-revoke protections during his final weeks in the White House.According to sources knowledgeable about this move, Biden intends to invoke an obscure provision of a 1953 law, the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, that supposedly gives him wide latitude to withdraw federal waters from future oil and gas leasing.While section 12(a) of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act gives a president wide leeway to bar drilling, it does not include language that would allow Mr. Trump or any future president to revoke a ba
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