President-elect Donald Trump’s pledge to undo President Joe Biden’s Monday memorandum blocking offshore oil and gas leasing is largely untested in court and will face similar legal challenges to Trump’s vow to abolish or shrink national monuments.
Biden on Monday used Section 12(a) of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA) to withdraw areas of the Bering Sea in Alaska, the eastern Gulf of Mexico, and the East and West Coasts of the US from oil and gas leasing. Trump said Monday he’ll reverse the withdrawals once he takes office.
Blocking offshore oil and gas leasing is Biden’s way of ...
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