Trump signs order to explore U.S. offshore oil drilling and reverse bans imposed by President Obama, saying it will bring 'great wealth to our country

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Trump signs order to explore U.S. offshore oil drilling and reverse bans imposed by President Obama, saying it will bring 'great wealth to our country'

• President Trump signed an executive order that reverses President Obama's restrictions on Arctic drilling and protections he had placed on large swaths of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
• In his final weeks in office, Obama signed what he called a permanent oil and gas drilling ban for large swaths of the Arctic and the U.S. coast
• Coastal areas from Virginia to Maryland had been protected
• Trump said the rollback would lead to 'great wealth for our country and a lot of great jobs for our country'
• The move is already getting pushback from environmental groups and lawmakers

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• Trump order could open California coast, Arctic to new oil and gas drilling - LA Times

 

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President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday to roll back Arctic drilling restrictions and revisit President Obama's actions to protect large swaths of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans from drilling.
'Today, we're unleashing American energy and clearing the way for thousands and thousands of high-paying energy jobs,' Trump said at a White House ceremony, where he was joined by Republican lawmakers who had pushed for the reversal.
As part of the order, Trump said Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke would be 'reconsidering burdensome regulations that slow job creation.'
In addition to reversing the Arctic drilling ban, Trump said the order would 'allow responsible development of offshore areas that will bring revenue to our treasury and jobs to our workers.'

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President Donald Trump signed an executive order to roll back Arctic drilling restrictions and revisit President Obama's actions to protect large swaths of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans from drilling

'It's going to lead to a lot of great wealth for our country and a lot of great jobs for our country,' he said.
The move is likely to provoke a swift legal challenge and opposition from environmental groups and other opponents of new coastal oil leases.
'California will fight this every step of the way,' Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said late Thursday, the LA Times reported. 'We do not want oil drilling off our coast. Period,' she said.
Added Rhea Suh, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council: 'We'll fight this move to sell out our children's future for big oil and gas.
Trump hailed the pro-energy development lawmakers who joined him, and took another shot at the media.
'I'm very proud of the people standing behind me. I'm far less proud of the people standing in front of me, the media,' he said.
The order also reverses a drilling ban in the Arctic's Beaufort and Chukchi seas.
The move is just the latest effort by Trump to try to tear up Obama's environmental legacy.

 

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Trump was joined by pro-coastal drilling lawmakers, including Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski, who got the pen after the signing

Earlier this week, Trump signed an order to examine federal lands that Obama and his predecessors had designated as national monuments under the Antiquities Act as a way to protect them from development.
After signing the order, he gave the pen to Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski, who backs oil development and exploration, but who voted against Betsy DeVos to be Trump's Education Secretary.
The order also directs his energy secretary to review regulations overseeing drilling and former President Barack Obama's five-year drilling plan.
It's Trump's latest move to undo his predecessor's environmental protection efforts in his first 100 days in office.
He thanked Zinke and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, who had also counseled Trump on his last-minute decision not to pull out of NAFTA.
The order seeks to expand offshore oil and gas drilling to areas currently off limits, in the Trump administration's latest move to expand domestic energy production.
The order could lead to a reversal of bans on drilling across swathes of the Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic oceans and the U.S. Gulf of Mexico that former President Barack Obama sought to protect from development.

 

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Pennzenergy Company Oil Exploration Drilling Rig In The Gulf Of Mexico During Sunset

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President Donald Trump waves as he walks across the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Friday as he headed to address the National Rifle Association in Georgia

'It is better to produce energy here than be held hostage by foreign entities,' Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke told reporters on Thursday in a briefing about the executive order, which will be called the America-First Offshore Energy Strategy.
Trump campaigned on a promise to do away with Obama-era environmental protections that he said were hobbling energy development and undermining U.S. national security without providing any tangible benefits. Industry cheered but environmental advocates were enraged.
Zinke said the order will require him to review and replace the Obama administration's most recent five-year oil and gas development plan for the outer continental shelf, which includes federal waters off all U.S. coasts.
The order will also reverse Obama's move to place parts of the Arctic permanently off limits to drilling, and encourage more seismic surveying to determine which areas are likely to hold rich reserves of oil and gas.
In addition, under the order Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross will review previous presidents' designations of marine national monuments and sanctuaries under the 1906 Antiquities Act over the last 10 years.
Weeks before leaving office, Obama banned new oil and gas drilling in federal waters in the Atlantic and Arctic oceans, protecting 115 million acres (46.5 million hectares) of waters off Alaska and 3.8 million acres in the Atlantic from New England to the Chesapeake Bay.
On Wednesday Trump signed a separate order to examine areas of federally managed land to determine if they were improperly designated as national monuments by former presidents, rendering them off limits to development.
Environmental groups, including Oceana and the Center for Biological Diversity, criticized the new executive order and promised to fight it in court. They pointed out the order comes seven years after a large oil spill from a BP platform in the Gulf of Mexico, which had prompted them to urge a slowdown in offshore oil development.
Democratic senators also opposed the order, saying it could threaten the fishing and tourism industries. (Editing by Richard Valdmanis and Jeffrey Benkoe)

 

[superbeets]

God bless President Trump! Undoing the damage caused by weak libertard obbobo one day at a time!

 

[superbeets]

Putting Americans back to work. Drill, baby drill.

 

[GasMan]

What about the silver minnow crickets ??!!???

 

[Dave007inVegas]

It's just common sense. Something Obama lacked.

 

[carlspackler]

As a resident of The Great State of New Jersey I will always be for a ban on offshore drilling.

Id like to see a poll of who is for offshore drilling and who is against based on how close they live to the coast.

 

[SgtLanquel]

Absolutely anti-OD.....we live approx three miles from Gulf Coast of Florida

 

[Seymour]

As a resident of The Great State of New Jersey I will always be for a ban on offshore drilling.

Id like to see a poll of who is for offshore drilling and who is against based on how close they live to the coast.

i live on the water and enjoy the bay - im for any form of responsible drilling