Environmental Protections
The president is expected to issue an executive order permanently banning new oil and gas drilling in parts of the Atlantic and Pacific ocean
During his final weeks in the White House, President Joe Biden is expected to issue an executive order prohibiting new offshore oil and gas drilling, a move that would help protect areas of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans from President-elect Donald Trump‘s incoming administration.
According to Bloomberg, people familiar with the plans said that Biden is expected to issue the permanent ban within days. The decree is based on the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, a 1953 law that lays out guidelines for oil and gas development in the United States outer continental shelf, and could allow Biden to withdraw large swaths of federal waters from future leasing, per the…