Posted on 01/01/2025 2:45:44 PM PST by Libloather
The Biden administration is attempting to implement last-minute restrictions on oil and gas drilling in the west just weeks before President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration.
On Monday, the Department of the Interior announced plans to pursue a 20-year ban on oil and gas leases in 264,000 acres of Nevada's Ruby Mountains.
The administration submitted an application to withdraw the acreage from any potential leasing, which initiated a two-year ban on new mineral leases in the area during the approval process. The proposal now heads into a 90-day public comment period, which will fall under the Trump administration.
"The Ruby Mountains are an iconic landscape with exceptional recreation opportunities and valuable fish and wildlife habitat worth preserving for the future," Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said in a statement. "Today’s action honors the voices of Tribal communities and conservation and sportsmen’s groups and marks another important step to protect a treasured landscape."
The Biden administration's lease limitation does not put restrictions on mining in the region.
During Trump's first administration, the Forest Service conducted a study to determine whether 54,000 acres could be leased for oil and gas drilling in the Ruby Mountains.
The proposal was eventually rejected in 2019 after the public comment period saw "thousands of comments from the local area, the state of Nevada, and from across the nation" opposing the idea, according to William Dunkelberger, the forest supervisor who signed the decision.
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Quickly reversed by President Trump!
The MAGA movement will not be complete without Joe Bumpkin and Barack Obozo having faced treason charges.
No.... I mean Biden cannot use an executive order to forbid drilling somewhere for 20 years. If Biden does it with an EO, Trump can use an EO to revoke it.
If a president can do this on a whim, then a next president can override it on a whim.
Gotcha...I was holding my mouth wrong reading it. It may be un-Christian but I SO want that whole gang tried, found guilty of treason and hanged slowly.
Choke slam this into 180 degree reverse on Jan 21 2025.
Employment for WH legal staff drafting EOs to nullify everything that he does now. “Be gone, before a house falls on you.”
There it is.
Biden is evil. He doesn’t care about this country, only for himself and his criminal brood. I can’t wait for Trump to be back in the White House.
“I realize that it would be impossible for that to happen here, but two and a half months seems a long time for the country to be in some kind of limbo.”
It would be possible if newly elected presidents could fill cabinet and other executive positions without Senate approval.
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