{"id":4500,"date":"2025-01-06T19:19:18","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T19:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-promises-to-undo-biden-lame-duck-drilling-ban\/"},"modified":"2025-01-06T19:19:18","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T19:19:18","slug":"trump-promises-to-undo-biden-lame-duck-drilling-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-promises-to-undo-biden-lame-duck-drilling-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump promises to undo Biden lame-duck drilling ban"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President-elect Donald Trump on Monday vowed to quickly reverse President Joe Biden\u2019s lame-duck push to ban oil and gas drilling along most of the U.S. coast.<\/p>\n

Trump said in a radio interview that he plans to undo Biden\u2019s policy \u201cimmediately\u201d after he takes office later this month, although doing so would likely require help from Congress<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The incoming president slammed Biden\u2019s offshore drilling ban Monday in an interview with radio host Hugh Hewitt. Biden announced earlier Monday \u2014 two weeks before Inauguration Day \u2014 that he was banning new offshore oil and gas drilling along most of the U.S. coastline.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s ridiculous. I’ll unban it immediately,\u201d Trump said. \u201cIt’ll be changed on Day One. I can change it immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reversing Biden\u2019s move would likely require an act of Congress, where Republicans hold majorities but where a reversal could face opposition from coastal lawmakers who oppose drilling off their home states’ shores.<\/p>\n

Biden moved Monday to block offshore oil and gas leasing of 625 million acres where the White House said the environmental and economic risks of drilling outweigh their \u201climited fossil fuel resource potential.\u201d The White House and environmentalists see the move as a way to bolster Biden\u2019s conservation legacy as he prepares to leave office.<\/p>\n

But Trump and his industry allies are furious about the outgoing administration\u2019s move that could hamstring the incoming administration\u2019s plans to expand domestic fossil fuel production.<\/p>\n

The Biden team is \u201calways saying, \u2018Oh, no, we want to have a smooth transition from party to party,\u201d Trump said Monday. \u201cWell, they’re making it really difficult. They’re throwing everything they can in the way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Biden\u2019s ban \u2014 including areas along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and portions of the northern Bering Sea off the Alaskan coast \u2014 covers areas with minimal oil and gas production.<\/p>\n

Still, industry groups and Republicans called for lawmakers to move quickly to unravel the policy that could tie the new administration\u2019s hands on drilling in those areas.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe call on Congress and the incoming Administration to use all available tools to reverse this policy,\u201d said Christopher Guith, senior vice president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce\u2019s Global Energy Institute.<\/p>\n

Rep. Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.), chair of the House Natural Resources Committee, said in a statement Monday that Congress \u201cwill use every tool, including reconciliation, to restore and unleash these revenues, fueling conservation, coastal resilience, and energy independence, and ensuring America \u2014 not OPEC, Russia or China \u2014 leads the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said the move is part of the outgoing administration\u2019s work \u201cto make bold and enduring changes that recognize the impact of oil and gas drilling on our nation\u2019s coastlines.\u201d<\/p>\n

The climate advocacy group Sunrise Movement’s Executive Director Aru Shiney-Ajay praised the Biden ban as a \u201cmassive victory for our generation and for communities on the front lines of oil and gas extraction.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s expected efforts to undo the drilling ban could lead to clashes on Capitol Hill or in the courts. A federal judge in 2017 struck down a Trump move<\/a> to reverse Obama-era offshore drilling restrictions, finding that only Congress could do so.<\/p>\n

As he prepares to take office in two weeks, Trump also assailed Biden administration spending on climate and clean energy programs \u2014 including wind turbines \u2014 in his radio interview Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey’re giving out trillions of dollars in nonsense and Green New Deal crap that isn’t worth a damn thing,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n

Trump, a longtime critic of wind turbines, accused the Biden administration of \u201cputting windmills all over the place that are destroying every beautiful plain and field and mountain.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s so sad when you fly over the country and you see all these horrible-looking structures, half of them are closed down, rusted and rotted. Their life is over. You know, they last a very limited period of time, and then everybody just leaves them,\u201d he said. \u201cThey\u2019re just destroying the beauty of our country. It’s hard to believe environmentalists like windmills.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President-elect Donald Trump on Monday vowed to quickly reverse President Joe Biden\u2019s lame-duck push to ban oil and gas drilling along most of the U.S. coast. Trump said in a radio interview that he plans to undo Biden\u2019s policy \u201cimmediately\u201d after he takes office later this month, although doing so would likely require help from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}