Biden to ban offshore oil, gas drilling in vast areas ahead of Trump term • FRANCE 24 English

U.S. President Joe Biden will ban new offshore oil and gas development along most U.S. coastlines, a decision that President-elect Donald Trump, who has vowed to boost domestic energy production, may find difficult to reverse. The White House said on Monday Biden will use his authority under the 70-year-old Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to protect all federal waters off the East and West coasts, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and portions of the northern Bering Sea in Alaska. France 24’s environment editor Valérie Dekimpe takes a closer look.
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34 comments
  1. If the United States does not guarantee its energy self-sufficiency, that means nothing more than "democracy" for countries with energy resources.

  2. Biden will go down in history as America’s worst president ever. He did absolutely nothing for this country. We are ashamed of his presidency. Can’t wait until January 20th when a real president will step back into office.

  3. So, this guy prefers to keep bringing oil from Iran, and Venezuela instead of producing it here. It says a lot…

  4. These politicians just waste time to do these useless "work". They just pretend they are working. Everyone knows Trump will remove these bans/policies immediately after he takes the office.

  5. Executive order. These can be undone on day one by the next administration, and it will be. Biden should really just stay on vacation.

  6. Joe Biden wants us to be energy dependent. Trump had us energy independent and it’s gonna take him 4 year to get him back to the energy independence that we were almost at

  7. This displays bidens true identity as a threat to democracy because he knows Trump's election win as a mandate of the voting public.
    But Biden wants to interfere with the wishes of the voting public.

  8. The US exports about 4 billion gallons of crude oil per day then complains about not having enough oil and high gas prices.

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