https://www.offshore-mag.com/regional-reports/us-gulf-of-
mexico/news/55252894/report-biden-to-ban-more-offshore-oil-drilling-
before-trump-arrives

President Joe 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.

As reported by Bloomberg News, 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. The report cited �people familiar with
the effort who asked not to be named.�

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 US 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.

White House spokespeople did not respond to requests for comment, and the
Interior Department declined to comment on the matter, according to
Bloomberg.

Biden administration officials have been considering the approach for more
than two years, though efforts intensified after Trump�s victory, as the
outgoing president sought to promulgate new environmental measures before
the end of his term. The new offshore regulations would be in line with
recent Biden actions to protect areas from industrial mining and energy
development, including a formal proposal issued recently to thwart the
sale of new oil, gas and geothermal leases in Nevada�s Ruby Mountains.

The full scope of Biden�s coming offshore protections is not yet known,
but the designation is set to include waters considered critical to
coastal resilience and the effort is meant to be targeted, said people
familiar with the decision. Congressional Democrats and scores of
environmental groups have urged Biden to make a sweeping declaration,
though some recent deliberations have focused on parts of the Pacific
Ocean near California and eastern Gulf of Mexico waters by Florida.

The declaration would not affect drilling and other activity on existing
leases.

Trump is expected to order a reversal of the protections, but it is not
clear that he would be successful in that effort. During his first term in
office, Trump sought to revoke former President Barack Obama�s order to
protect more than 125 million acres (50.6 million hectares) of the Arctic
and Atlantic Oceans, but that move was rejected by a federal district
court in 2019.

Trump, himself, has actually used the same statute to block oil and gas
leasing in waters near Florida and along the Southeast US in a bid to
appeal to voters in the final weeks of the 2020 presidential campaign.

Supporters of the 1953 Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, which governs
offshore oil and gas development, note that Congress included a provision
giving presidents wide discretion to permanently protect waters from
leasing, but it did not explicitly grant them the authority to undo those
designations.

For decades, presidents have invoked the law�s withdrawal provision to
preserve walrus feeding grounds, US Arctic waters and other sensitive
marine resources, beginning with former President Dwight Eisenhower, who
in 1960 created the Key Largo Coral Reef Preserve that remains protected
today. Former President George H.W. Bush also invoked the provision to
block oil leasing along the West Coast, Northeast US and southern Florida
for a decade.

Though presidents have modified decisions from their predecessors to
exempt areas from oil leasing, courts have never validated a complete
reversal � and until Trump, no president had even attempted one.

Biden has already curtailed opportunities for new offshore oil and gas
development using potentially less enduring measures. His administration
designed a program for selling offshore leases that allows just three
auctions over the next five years, a record low. However, Trump is
expected to rewrite that leasing plan using an administrative process that
could take at least a year, and Republican lawmakers are considering
ordering more offshore oil lease sales as a way to raise revenue to offset
the cost of extending tax cuts.

Oil industry advocates have warned against new restrictions, arguing the
world will need fossil fuels for decades to come � and the US produces
them more cleanly than other countries. Nearly a century after it was
first drilled, the Gulf of Mexico remains a key source of US oil and gas,
providing about 14% of domestic output today � enough that if it were a
country, it would rank among the world�s top 12 oil producers.

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November 5, 2024 - Congratulations President Donald Trump. We look
forward to America being great again.

The disease known as Kamala Harris has been effectively treated and
eradicated.

We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that
stupid people won't be offended.

Durham Report: The FBI has an integrity problem. It has none.

Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden
fiasco, President Trump.

Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.

In <lnsB25D8B9082EF86F089P2473@0.0.0.1> Leroy N. Soetoro wrote:
>
> https://www.offshore-mag.com/regional-reports/us-gulf-of-
> mexico/news/55252894/report-biden-to-ban-more-offshore-oil-drilling-
> before-trump-arrives
>
> President Joe 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.
>
> As reported by Bloomberg News, 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. The report cited “people familiar with
> the effort who asked not to be named.”
>
> 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 US 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.
>
> White House spokespeople did not respond to requests for comment, and the
> Interior Department declined to comment on the matter, according to
> Bloomberg.
>
> Biden administration officials have been considering the approach for more
> than two years, though efforts intensified after Trump’s victory, as the
> outgoing president sought to promulgate new environmental measures before
> the end of his term. The new offshore regulations would be in line with
> recent Biden actions to protect areas from industrial mining and energy
> development, including a formal proposal issued recently to thwart the
> sale of new oil, gas and geothermal leases in Nevada’s Ruby Mountains.
>
> The full scope of Biden’s coming offshore protections is not yet known,
> but the designation is set to include waters considered critical to
> coastal resilience and the effort is meant to be targeted, said people
> familiar with the decision. Congressional Democrats and scores of
> environmental groups have urged Biden to make a sweeping declaration,
> though some recent deliberations have focused on parts of the Pacific
> Ocean near California and eastern Gulf of Mexico waters by Florida.
>
> The declaration would not affect drilling and other activity on existing
> leases.
>
> Trump is expected to order a reversal of the protections, but it is not
> clear that he would be successful in that effort. During his first term in
> office, Trump sought to revoke former President Barack Obama’s order to
> protect more than 125 million acres (50.6 million hectares) of the Arctic
> and Atlantic Oceans, but that move was rejected by a federal district
> court in 2019.
>
> Trump, himself, has actually used the same statute to block oil and gas
> leasing in waters near Florida and along the Southeast US in a bid to
> appeal to voters in the final weeks of the 2020 presidential campaign.
>
> Supporters of the 1953 Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, which governs
> offshore oil and gas development, note that Congress included a provision
> giving presidents wide discretion to permanently protect waters from
> leasing, but it did not explicitly grant them the authority to undo those
> designations.
>
> For decades, presidents have invoked the law’s withdrawal provision to
> preserve walrus feeding grounds, US Arctic waters and other sensitive
> marine resources, beginning with former President Dwight Eisenhower, who
> in 1960 created the Key Largo Coral Reef Preserve that remains protected
> today. Former President George H.W. Bush also invoked the provision to
> block oil leasing along the West Coast, Northeast US and southern Florida
> for a decade.
>
> Though presidents have modified decisions from their predecessors to
> exempt areas from oil leasing, courts have never validated a complete
> reversal — and until Trump, no president had even attempted one.
>
> Biden has already curtailed opportunities for new offshore oil and gas
> development using potentially less enduring measures. His administration
> designed a program for selling offshore leases that allows just three
> auctions over the next five years, a record low. However, Trump is
> expected to rewrite that leasing plan using an administrative process that
> could take at least a year, and Republican lawmakers are considering
> ordering more offshore oil lease sales as a way to raise revenue to offset
> the cost of extending tax cuts.
>
> Oil industry advocates have warned against new restrictions, arguing the
> world will need fossil fuels for decades to come — and the US produces
> them more cleanly than other countries. Nearly a century after it was
> first drilled, the Gulf of Mexico remains a key source of US oil and gas,
> providing about 14% of domestic output today — enough that if it were a
> country, it would rank among the world’s top 12 oil producers.

It will take a century to convert most things to non-petroleum energy, and most emergency vehicles will remain traditional ICE.