Biden Uses 72-Year-Old Law to Give Trump a Slap in the Face Before MAGA 2.0

The White House move could create a roadblock to one of President-elect Trump’s major plans.

Updated Feb. 14 2025 10:03AM EST / Published Feb. 14 2025 9:58AM EST

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks at a reception for newly elected Democratic members of Congress, in Washington, U.S. January 5, 2025. REUTERS/Nathan Howard — Nathan Howard/REUTERS

President Joe Biden is taking action to protect 625 million acres of offshore areas from future oil and gas drilling, the White House announced Monday, in a move which could frustrate plans of the incoming Donald Trump administration.

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Biden is invoking the 1953 Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA) to prevent new fossil fuel developments off the East and West coasts of the U.S. as well as in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico and Alaska’s North Bering Sea.

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