KB Leecaster on Nostr: President Joe Biden will move Monday to block all future oil and gas drilling across ...
President Joe Biden will move Monday to block all future oil and gas drilling across more than 625 million acres of federal waters, but I still get pushback from people when I label him a climate hawk for some reason.
Biden plans to invoke the 1953 Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, which gives the president broad powers to withdraw federal waters from future leasing. A federal judge ruled in 2019 that such withdrawals cannot be undone without an act of Congress.
Biden plans to invoke the 1953 Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, which gives the president broad powers to withdraw federal waters from future leasing. A federal judge ruled in 2019 that such withdrawals cannot be undone without an act of Congress.