President Joe Biden is expected to use a provision in a 1953 law to permanently ban new offshore drilling for oil and natural gas in large sections of the Atlantic and Pacific, as well as other federal waters, in a way that would make it difficult for the incoming Trump administration could undo.
Biden as early as Monday will invoke an obscure provision in the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act that would give him wide latitude to withdraw federal waters from future oil and gas leasing, The New York Times reported Thursday, citing two people familiar with the plans who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the policy publicly.
President-elect Donald J. Trump has pledged to reverse virtually every law and regulation aimed at curbing carbon dioxide emissions and to make it easier for companies to produce more coal, oil, and natural gas. His transition team reportedly is drafting a wide-ranging energy package to roll out within days of him taking office on Jan. 20 that would approve export permits for new liquefied natural gas projects and increase oil drilling off the U.S. coast and on federal lands.
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