Question about Biden's banning of offshore drilling.

[bif]

What's from stopping The Rapist Elect from overturning the ban?

Here's the article:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/biden-issues-major-coastal-protection-142540108.html

[drray23]

1. Nothing if its an executive order it can be reversed by Trump.nt.

[cbabe]

2. Fight is on: 'Epic Ocean Victory': Biden Permanently Bans Offshore Drilling Across 625 Million Acres

https://www.commondreams.org/news/joe-biden-offshore-drilling

'Epic Ocean Victory': Biden Permanently Bans Offshore Drilling Across 625 Million Acres

The authority President Joe Biden used could make it difficult for the incoming Trump administration to reverse the sweeping drilling ban.

JAKE JOHNSON
Jan 06, 2025

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In a fact sheet, the White House said Biden is using his authority under Section 12(a) of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to "protect all U.S. Outer Continental Shelf areas off the East and West coasts, the eastern Gulf of Mexico, and additional portions of the Northern Bering Sea in Alaska from future oil and natural gas leasing." The withdrawals, according to the White House, "have no expiration date, and prohibit all future oil and natural gas leasing in the areas withdrawn."

As The Washington Postobserved, "A federal judge ruled in 2019 that such withdrawals cannot be undone without an act of Congress."

"Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), the new chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, suggested that he would seek to overturn the decision using the Congressional Review Act, which allows lawmakers to nullify an executive action within 60 days of enactment with a simple majority vote," the Post added.

A spokesperson for Trump's transition team called Biden's action "disgraceful," adding, "Rest assured, Joe Biden will fail, and we will drill, baby, drill."

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[DeepWinter]

3. Absolutely nothing

It is an Executive Order which is the weakest way to push something through. The very next President on day one can issue another Executive Order reversing it. It's a very short term chess move.

[bif]

5. That's what I figured

[GreenWave]

4. Many abandoned wells in the Gulf of MEXICO.

So our oil companies believe they can leave their shitty abandoned wells there and still get billions of tax dollars as incentives. So far they have,