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Outgoing President Joe Biden on Monday moved to permanently ban offshore oil and gas drilling across more than 625 million acres of U.S. coastal territory, protecting swaths of the East Coast, the eastern Gulf of Mexico, the Pacific, and Alaska's Northern Bering Sea from fossil fuel exploitation just before President-elect Donald Trump is set to retake power.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

rare and twisted court ruling or an act of Congress

you mean like how roe was trashed? or literally any other example of courts and congress doing exactly what trump wants?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

No one will escape his terror. Not women, not the immigrants who do all the hard work, not the planet or Bea Arthur fanclub members. Any joy in this world will suffer because Obama told a joke that one night.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

He's a man, not a god. This isn't just him, it's a country more focused on money and fame and disaster than on quality of life. 🤷‍♂️ We live in a reality TV nation here in America. We have been building this for decades.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I mean he does have the trifecta so he could undo basically anything (non-filibusterable) if he sets his mind to it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Are people just figuring out that law is complicated? You’re right, it can be undone through corrupt actions but that doesn’t mean that the Biden administration hasn’t taken the steps they could to make it permanent.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

i think it's been pretty thoroughly demonstrated that the law doesn't apply to trump