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.
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.
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.
Are people just figuring out that law is complicated? You’re right, it can be undone through corrupt actions but that doesn’t mean that the Biden administration hasn’t taken the steps they could to make it permanent.
i think it’s been pretty thoroughly demonstrated that the law doesn’t apply to trump
Cool.
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.