Outgoing President Joe Biden on Monday moved to permanently ban offshore oil and gas drilling across more than 625 million acres of U.S. coastal territory, protecting swaths of the East Coast, the eastern Gulf of Mexico, the Pacific, and Alaska’s Northern Bering Sea from fossil fuel exploitation just before President-elect Donald Trump is set to retake power.
Permanently*
Until the next court strikes it down and Trump takes office.
It’s part of the same old song and dance.
trump broke fossil fuel production records, then Biden broke them, now Trump’s gonna break em again.
Its what happens when the fossil fuel industry realizes they can just buy both options.
Some performative stuff gets done so both can claim to be the lesser evil, but profits always go up. This “ban” is likely just because it’s not as profitable as fracking right now, so the big players don’t want it touched, they want it saved for later.
Look at fracking and Pennsylvania this election, almost all voters surveyed said it needs regulated, and floated right at 50% +/- 2% on outright banning fracking…
Both candidates pledged to leave it alone.
And all voters were told it doesn’t matter because the only two options agreed, so we had to care about social issues the rich don’t give a fuck about.
Yeah this is a 100% bullshit political maneuver by Bidey. Oil and gas drilling did achieve record highs during his admin.
How is it permanent? Trump’s probably just going to completely undo it and no one will say a damn word.
This is more permanent than it could be…instead of being able to be undone via executive order, it would take an incredibly rare and twisted court ruling or an act of Congress. Neither is that unlikely, however repealing it won’t be unilateral, and that means it’ll take time and political capital.
rare and twisted court ruling or an act of Congress
you mean like how roe was trashed? or literally any other example of courts and congress doing exactly what trump wants?
I mean he does have the trifecta so he could undo basically anything (non-filibusterable) if he sets his mind to it.
No one will escape his terror. Not women, not the immigrants who do all the hard work, not the planet or Bea Arthur fanclub members. Any joy in this world will suffer because Obama told a joke that one night.
He’s a man, not a god. This isn’t just him, it’s a country more focused on money and fame and disaster than on quality of life. 🤷♂️ We live in a reality TV nation here in America. We have been building this for decades.
They aren’t going to play by the rules, the justice system already proved that republicans can break the law and not face consequences.
How is it permanent if the president can unilaterally do it? We all know Trump is gonna reverse it just to spite all living things, right?
Apparently based on 2019 ruling only Congress can reverse this.
Thanks for the additional information.
Maybe I’m in a doomer phase, but I don’t see how it changes the end result. Reps have a slim majority in congress, and if I were a betting man I’d put down cash on more dems voting against party line than reps. This shit is getting overturned
Eh, It just makes it a bit harder. Trump tried to undo Obama’s restrictions around drilling around Alaska and failed…However, that was in 2019, which was before the Republicans had a sure footed majority of insane supreme court justices.
Roe vs wade shows that this current makeup of SC justices don’t exactly care about prior rulings.
You mean the republican congress?
Permanently*
(14 days)
Excludes the western Gulf of Mexico because?
Outgoing President Joe Biden on Monday moved to permanently ban offshore oil and gas drilling
In his last two days or something? Anyways good if he manages it
Thats so cute. The man giving bombs to kill tens of thousands of children is concerned about the wellbeing of tuna. Amazing
Rejoice. He’ll be out in a few days. And his successor, for sure, care about neither children in the middle east nor the environnement.
Everyone knows trump is an enemy of the working class. Genojoe is the wolf in sheep clothing. This kind of article is part of the wool he uses to cover himself
