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 jus...

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.

  • BrikoXOPEnglish
    6·
    5 days ago

    Apparently based on 2019 ruling only Congress can reverse this.

    • nohaybanda [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      7·
      5 days ago

      Thanks for the additional information.

      Maybe I’m in a doomer phase, but I don’t see how it changes the end result. Reps have a slim majority in congress, and if I were a betting man I’d put down cash on more dems voting against party line than reps. This shit is getting overturned

      • TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee
        1·
        5 days ago

        Eh, It just makes it a bit harder. Trump tried to undo Obama’s restrictions around drilling around Alaska and failed…However, that was in 2019, which was before the Republicans had a sure footed majority of insane supreme court justices.

        Roe vs wade shows that this current makeup of SC justices don’t exactly care about prior rulings.