In a move to protect America's coast lines from the 'drill baby drill' mob entering official power, Joe Biden banned new offshore drilling in most coast zones except for the Gulf of Mexico already sacrificed to the oil and gas industry. He acted under his authority in the federal Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act passed in 1953. It may be difficult for Trump to reverse his official action without an act of Congress despite his expressed support for, "American energy dominance". Trump himself approved a ban on drilling off the Florida, Georgia and South Carolina until 2032 when he was last in power.
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Biden's action protects some 625 million acres of federal waters including the environmentally sensitive Bering Sea. Conservationists hailed his action as, "an epic ocean victory". Industrialists attacked it as a "strategic error driven by political motives." In his announcement Biden said, “As the climate crisis continues to threaten communities across the country and we are transitioning to a clean energy economy, now is the time to protect these coasts for our children and grandchildren.” Joe Biden will go down in history as one of the most consequential modern Presidents since FDR.