Outgoing President Joe Biden on Monday moved to permanently ban offshore oil and gas drilling across more than 625 million acres of U.S. coastal territory, protecting swaths of the East Coast, the eastern Gulf of Mexico, the Pacific, and Alaska's Northern Bering Sea from fossil fuel exploitation jus...

Outgoing President Joe Biden on Monday moved to permanently ban offshore oil and gas drilling across more than 625 million acres of U.S. coastal territory, protecting swaths of the East Coast, the eastern Gulf of Mexico, the Pacific, and Alaska’s Northern Bering Sea from fossil fuel exploitation just before President-elect Donald Trump is set to retake power.

  • nohaybanda [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    30 days ago

    How is it permanent if the president can unilaterally do it? We all know Trump is gonna reverse it just to spite all living things, right?

      • nohaybanda [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        30 days ago

        Thanks for the additional information.

        Maybe I’m in a doomer phase, but I don’t see how it changes the end result. Reps have a slim majority in congress, and if I were a betting man I’d put down cash on more dems voting against party line than reps. This shit is getting overturned