Biden EO Expected to Ban New Offshore Oil and Gas Development in Some Federal Waters
Trump transition team has oil and gas exploration as an important part of its energy agenda.
Biden’s handlers are having a busy few weeks pushing their agendas on the country before the new administration takes over.
Next week, it is expected that Biden will issue an executive order permanently banning new offshore oil and gas development in certain U.S. coastal waters. The order could come as early as January 6th.
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.
The move is certain to complicate President-elect Donald Trump’s ambitions to drive more domestic energy production. 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 U.S. 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.
White House and Interior Department officials didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.
Scoop: President 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 during his final weeks in the White House.https://t.co/sGRIBKQCvy
— Jennifer A. Dlouhy (@jendlouhyhc) January 2, 2025
According to sources knowledgeable about this move, Biden intends to invoke an obscure provision of a 1953 law, the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, that supposedly gives him wide latitude to withdraw federal waters from future oil and gas leasing.
Interestingly, Trump also used the same law to impose a similar moratorium on oil and gas exploration in coastal waters between North Carolina to Florida.
While section 12(a) of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act gives a president wide leeway to bar drilling, it does not include language that would allow Mr. Trump or any future president to revoke a ban.
That was tested after President Barack Obama banned offshore drilling in parts of the Arctic Ocean and dozens of canyons in the Atlantic Ocean. During his first term in office Mr. Trump tried to revoke the ban. In 2019, U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason in Alaska ruled that Mr. Obama’s ban could not be undone without an act of Congress.
The order could box in Mr. Trump politically as well. One area Mr. Biden intends to permanently protect is a stretch of coastal waters from North Carolina to Florida, according to the two people knowledgeable about the plan. Mr. Trump himself had imposed a 10-year moratorium on oil and gas exploration in that region by using the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act. He took that step while he was courting voters in those states during his unsuccessful bid for re-election in 2020.
So, would such oil and gas exploration be part of the Trump agenda in the next 4 years? As of early December, the Trump transition team certainly had it as an important part of its energy agenda.
US President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team is putting together a wide-ranging energy package to roll out within days of his taking office that would approve export permits for new liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects and increase drilling off the US coast and on federal lands, according to a recent Reuters report.
The energy checklist largely reflects promises Trump’s promises on the campaign trail to boost domestic oil and gas production, but it also includes plans to repeal some of his Democratic predecessor’s key climate legislation and regulations. According to the report, this includes tax credits for electric vehicles and new clean power plant standards that aim to phase out coal and natural gas-fired power generation.
During his first term, Trump attempted to undo similar protections implemented by Obama but was blocked by a 2019 U.S. district court ruling.
So, if Trump plans to undo this executive order, he may have to take a different tack.
Arguing that Biden lacks the capacity to make lucid and informed decisions due to obvious age-related mental impairment could be effective. The American people did not vote for whoever has been making decisions for Biden, especially recent ones.
Trump could take his case to Congress, and hope they can reverse the law impacting this issue. He could also take the case to court, perhaps as high as the Supreme Court.
Finally, perhaps it is time for Congress to rein in the presidential use of executive orders in the period between elections and inauguration whenever a new administration is poised to take charge.
I would say this is another stain on the Biden legacy, but the legacy is already a dumpster fire.
Quick snapshot of the Biden legacy. pic.twitter.com/T4n9TrfGaA
— Leslie Eastman ☥ (@Mutnodjmet) January 3, 2025
Biden’s handlers know they will not be able to enact their anti-American, economy-crushing activist agendas for some time to come, so its a mad rush to get them on the books now.
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All these EO’s are nothing more than Kabuki Theater. Trump will revoke them as soon as he is sworn in.
Apparently there is some law, known unto God, that forbids Trump from over turning previous EO’s with his own EO according to “Hawaiian judges”. This was something we discovered during his first term.
Not sure how this 72 year old law can give one president power that another cannot reverse, but perhaps a court challenge can remedy that. Or, perhaps in the first docket of legislation, this law is amended.
If I were president, I would simply tell Joe Biden, the guy who had showers with his prepubescent daughter, to go fk himself, as well as any court who tries to stop me.
You made your decision, now go ahead and enforce it.
F’ing lawyers, f’ing judges, f’ing Marxists. They can all go to hell.
The citizens own this country and give the power to the government. We are not your serfs or your slaves.
Biden and his ilk need to be deported via EO on day one.
I dream about a deep dungeon for them 🙂
Trump should just tell the oil companies to drill and he’ll issue pardons for them all.
Biden is not just a lame duck, he’s a sick, spiteful, venomous, malignant, pestilent, malevolent, lowlife, creeping POS.
True description, at this point his puppet masters are the problem. It is important that all of them are identified and prosecuted for the fraud they have committed against all Americans.
Biden has always been a sick, spiteful, venomous, malignant, pestilent, malevolent. lowlife creeping POS his entire political career. It’s just now that he, or his handlers, realize he can do whatever he wants in his remaining time in office with no legal repercussions. Of course, the damage to the democrat party is ongoing but Biden doesn’t seem to care about that. And here we are and there we go.
And here we are and there he goes. (whew!!!)
Please stop blaming Biden. He doesn’t even know what city he’s in.
These problems are the work of THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
To blame them on Biden means that the next Democrat can lie and say he won’t do such things because he’s not Biden.
Don’t leave them that excuse for 2028.
He deserves blame for allowing himself to be a puppet back when he held on to a sliver of mental capacity in 2020.
It’s either Sundowner doing it with mental health issues ot the Puppeteers who want to destroy everything behind them
Pick one
I think I hear Biden singing now:
I could while away the hours
Conferrin’ with the flowers,
Consulting with the rain;
And my head I’d be a scratchin’
While my thoughts are busy hatchin’
If I only had a brain.
Has any outgoing administration ever deliberately tried to sabotage the incoming President as Biden’s bunch has done?
Besides being despicable and dishonorable, I think the left and the parasite class in general are deliberately pushing the narrative of an implacable Us = Good, Them = Evil.
It is impossible to have a unified country which insists your neighbors are your blood enemies.. There is no way this ends without violence.
When you have a Kenyan Fanook operating anonymously he becomes emboldened
Wrong…Trump won 2020, we all know that’s the truth
81 million votes my a$$
“He took that step while he was courting voters in those states during his unsuccessful bid for re-election in 2020.”
Sundowner bringing a wrecking ball to the country
On January 20, Trump could merely say, “I have no idea what he’s been saying all these years, and I am sure he doesn’t either.”
Then Trump can do what he wants.
His puppeteers would hail mary pass Xi Jinping the nuclear football if they could get away with it.
This simply highlights the fact that the prior reliance on ‘good faith’ or really a blind faith that ‘no Presidential Admin would do x b/c decency/optics/pure spite’ is no longer appropriate.
Where Congress has granted power to the Executive it will be used and often for purely ideological, partisan political purposes. All prior grants of authority to the executive must, at minimum, contain the explicit power for future Presidents to revoke/modify the actions of prior Presidents.
In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.
–THOMAS JEFFERSON
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
–JOHN ADAMS
Put the government in the hands of outright lock-picking criminals, and chains aren’t much good.
I once foolishly thought we should perhaps scale back our oil consumption because one day we might run out of oil. I was corrected in my thinking that we will never run out of oil, it might cost $1000 per barrel but we will never run out of oil.
This move by Biden* will only keep the lower cost oil off of the market and will now make the oil companies go after harder to extract pockets of oil which will affect the working man’s wallet the most.
Search “Permian Basin Straberry Trend” because they have been punching holes in that formation since 1943 and they have extracted only 10% of the proven reserves.
Bump the price of oil up to $200 a barrel and watch a whole lot more holes be punched in Ole Man Straberry’s farm.
If you want to achieve your overnight “Oil Expert” merit badge we’ve been watching the TV show “Landman” for the last few weeks and it’s quite good. A caveat, it’s only for after the kids are in bed.
But…but…”Trump is Hitler ” doncha know
That’s why pResident Dementia had to do this
On the first day I would issue a ban on building windmills off shore.
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