There's a word for what the Biden team is doing before leaving the White House ...
First they did the auction of border wall materials, now they're trying to prevent the country from accessing oil off the coast.
Anything to stymie the incoming administration.
From Bloomberg:
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 for sensitive marine areas during his final weeks in the White House.
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, according to people familiar with the effort who asked not to be named because the decision isn't public.
Yes, this is an effort at a permanent ban on offshore drilling that would require new leases in "sensitive marine areas." Meaning the environmentalist wackos would get to tell us where we are allowed to drill for oil.
A direct challenge to Trump's "drill baby, drill" campaign.
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.
Yes, the idea is that this is a permanent ban because the law allows the executive to create a ban and gives no method for revoking a ban once its made.
It's tailor-made to tick off the Trump admin and cripple America's energy production.
Or, as Democrats call it, "fighting the evil sun monster by paying Russia and the Middle East for oil that is somehow magically more environmentally friendly!"
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