Summary
President Joe Biden invoked the 1953 Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to protect 625 million acres of U.S. offshore waters from future oil and gas drilling, blocking areas along the East and West coasts, Eastern Gulf of Mexico, and Alaska’s North Bering Sea.
The move aims to prevent environmental damage and hinder Donald Trump’s plans to expand fossil fuel production upon returning to office.
Trump allies and the oil industry criticized the decision as politically motivated, while Biden emphasized bipartisan support for protecting coastal regions.
PoLiTiCaLlY mOtIvAtEd
It’s only politically motivated when you use political affiliation to respond to it. “Leave it in the fucking ground already” is a scientific standpoint, not a political one. Fuck these goons.
Not only that, but I saw an article that Biden also, nearly in the same breath, approved a whole bunch of new offshore drilling elsewhere. So it’s not even that we’re not doing new drilling, we’re just not doing as much as we possibly could.