President Biden's executive action permanently protects 625 million acres of federal ocean waters from offshore oil and gas drilling, but the area where the 2010 BP oil spill occurred remains vulnerable to future drilling.
Democrats in Congress cheered as President Joe Biden moved on January 6 to withdraw 625 million acres federal ocean waters off United States coastlines from consideration for future offshore oil and gas drilling. Democratic lawmakersthe waters are “permanently” protected, although Republicans could use their majority in Congress to force the government to lease underwater drilling rights to the industry.
However, Biden’s last-minute effort to secure his climate legacy before Donald Trump takes office does nothing to prevent offshore drilling in the central and western Gulf of Mexico, where intense fossil fuel exploitation already that devastated the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 a “solemn reminder” of the risks offshore drilling poses to fisheries and coastal communities — but the area of the Gulf where the spill occurred is not protected under Biden’s executive action.off the East and West coasts, the eastern Gulf of Mexico, and additional portions of the Northern Bering Sea in Alaska. The Interior Department regularly leases vast swaths of public lands and waters to private companies for oil and gas production, including in the Gulf of Mexico, where the industry has left hundreds ofof oil in 2010 — will remain open for current and future oil and gas drilling, along with western Gulf waters off Texas and Louisiana. Biden’s executive action withdrew federal waters in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, as well as the Eastern Gulf of Mexico, from leasing consideration for potential offshore oil and gas drilling.offshore oil and gas leasing in the Gulf but was met with legal challenges from the industr
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