The ban affects the entire Eastern Seaboard, the Pacific Coast along California, Oregon and Washington, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the Northern Bering Sea.

Importantly, the law authorizing this doesn’t authorize the president to reverse the ban. Trump has used it before too.

So reversing this likely means an unusual ruling from the courts, or getting congress to change things. Both possible, but take a lot more effort than simply issuing an executive order.

  • @AA5B
    1•2 days ago

    I thought there was like a 60 day window where the new president can just say “nah” but anything established longer than that required a process to discourage jerking people around

    • @FlowVoidEnglish
      4•2 days ago

      That window is provided by the CRA and only applies to agency rule-making, which is not the process that Biden used here.

      Also the CRA does not allow the President to say “nah”. It allows Congress to say “nah”.

    • @[email protected]OP
      1•2 days ago

      There is a window, but it requires a vote by both houses of congress. Offshore drilling bans are popular, so there’s a decent chance of peeling off a couple of Republicans and preventing it from passing.