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Trump to sign executive order that could expand offshore energy development
CNBC ^ | April 27, 2017 | Tom DiChristopher

Posted on 04/27/2017 6:57:51 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

•President Donald Trump will instruct the Interior Department to revise the Obama administration's five-year plan for developing federal waters.
•His executive order will tell the Commerce Department to refrain from naming or expanding marine sanctuaries and review existing ones.
•Trump will seek to overturn President Barack Obama's effort to indefinitely put much of U.S. Arctic waters and part of the Atlantic off limits to drillers.

President Donald Trump on Friday will instruct his cabinet officials to take actions that will potentially open new areas of federally administered waters to energy development.

The actions, to be spelled out in a new executive order, mark Trump's latest effort to lift limits on oil and gas drilling and coal mining put in place by his predecessor. The move sets in motion a potential reversal of President Barack Obama's last-minute attempts to withdraw vast swaths of U.S. waters from lease sales to fossil fuel companies.

The America First Offshore Energy Executive Order instructs the Interior Department to revise the current-five year schedule for leasing blocks of the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf, the waters off the U.S. shore that the federal government governs. That process, which includes conducting environmental impact studies and taking public comments, takes at least two years.....

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: drillbabydrill; energy; gas; oil; palinwasright; trump

1 posted on 04/27/2017 6:57:51 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; cracker45; Tainan; Jet Jaguar; SENTINEL; redpoll; ArmyTeach; Eska; hattend; ...

Alaska Ping.

2 posted on 04/27/2017 7:05:12 PM PDT by KC_Lion (Proud Keeper of the Sarah Palin and New First Lady Melania Ping Lists. Let me know if you want on.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Reclaiming America for Americans.
3 posted on 04/27/2017 7:10:59 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Which 9th Circuit judge will try to put a hold on that?


4 posted on 04/27/2017 7:11:56 PM PDT by rickomatic
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Despite all the crap they’re trying desperately to stop him from doing, he’s already accomplished more than Obama did in 8 years. More positive pro-American stuff, that is.


5 posted on 04/27/2017 7:24:41 PM PDT by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Which will be reversed by a California federal judge in 3, 2, 1. . .


6 posted on 04/27/2017 7:35:12 PM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: bigbob

While not tired of winning, I am getting a little dizzy!!!

9th circus, bring it on. It will make the breakup so much sweeter!


7 posted on 04/27/2017 8:36:15 PM PDT by jdsteel (Give me freedom, not more government.)
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To: jdsteel

9th circuit court has yet to be challenged by SCOTUS since Trump is in office.


8 posted on 04/27/2017 9:30:22 PM PDT by 353FMG (AMERICA FIRST.)
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“9th circuit court has yet to be challenged by SCOTUS since Trump is in office.”

Key words “as yet”. Patience. It’s coming.


9 posted on 04/28/2017 11:57:36 AM PDT by jdsteel (Give me freedom, not more government.)
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