Biden Undermining Trump Energy,Conservation Agenda With Final EOs
Outgoing President Joe Biden is deliberately undermining his successor, president-elect Donald J. Trump, with his final climate decrees.
With two weeks left in office, Biden is trying to permanently codify his extreme net-zero policies ahead of Trump being sworn into office. These include permanently forbidding new oil and gas leases, enacting more appliance bans, and closing off more public lands to multiple uses.
Forbidding New Offshore Oil and Gas Leases
Unsurprisingly, President Biden is pre-emptively derailing Mr. Trump’s “drill baby drill” energy agenda that is expected to unleash more domestic production of conventional oil and gas.
News of Biden’s midnight executive order to pre-emptively block new bidding and exploration of offshore oil and gas leases across 625 million acres is egregious – threatening jobs, our national security, and even conservation.
Biden is leaning on the 70-plus year-old Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, which governs offshore oil and gas activities, to justify permanently banning new leasing areas. Bloomberg News reported about the law’s withdrawal provision, writing, “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 didn’t explicitly grant them the authority to undo those designations.
The Bloomberg report also added, “Though presidents have modified decisions from their predecessors to exempt areas from oil........
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