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President Obama bans oil drilling in large areas of Atlantic and Arctic oceans
Washington Post ^ | Dec. 20, 2016 | Darryl Fears and Juliet Eilperin

Posted on 12/20/2016 3:28:10 PM PST by Innovative

President Obama moved to solidify his environmental legacy Tuesday by withdrawing hundreds of millions of acres of federally owned land in the Arctic and Atlantic Ocean from future offshore oil and gas drilling. Obama used a little-known law called the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to protect large portions of the Chukchi and Beaufort seas in the Arctic and a string of canyons in the Atlantic stretching from Massachusetts to Virginia from oil exploration and the potential for spills.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: drilling; energy; environment; fubo; globalwarming; lastgaspofthetyrant; obama; oil; penandphone
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To: Innovative

Gee, I wonder why the little kenyan bitch did that...

61 posted on 12/20/2016 4:56:29 PM PST by Flag_This (Liberals are locusts.)
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To: sheik yerbouty

Soon he will be seen as, as mad as Carlotta.


62 posted on 12/20/2016 4:58:08 PM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: Rio

Why can’t Trump simply undo this?


63 posted on 12/20/2016 5:13:37 PM PST by Castigar
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To: nonsporting

MacArthur Park in Los Angeles.


64 posted on 12/20/2016 5:17:16 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: Dogbert41; LS
If it comes down to it, Trump can just treat this law the exact same way that Obama has treated so so so many of our laws he was under oath and obligation to enforce and did not. After all, the precedent was set. Trump's Administration can simply ignore it and let anybody drill. Just like Obama ignores our border and the Illegal invaders.

PERFECT.

Larry, this goes to Team Trump.

65 posted on 12/20/2016 5:21:13 PM PST by Lazamataz (TRUMP LIED TO ME!!!! ....He said I'd get sick of winning.... AND I'M NOT SICK OF WINNING YET!!!!)
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To: eyeamok
Here's a map of the withdrawls. Seems like there's a lot of room still.


66 posted on 12/20/2016 5:25:05 PM PST by Lazamataz (TRUMP LIED TO ME!!!! ....He said I'd get sick of winning.... AND I'M NOT SICK OF WINNING YET!!!!)
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To: Innovative

All of his bluster, and eight years, and all he can claim for his legacy is some enviroweenie nonesene that will be negated by the end of January

He wanted so bad to be the president who killed the 2nd amendment. What he got was exactly squat for a legacy

History will judge him harshly.


67 posted on 12/20/2016 5:25:31 PM PST by QualityMan (I will not comply.)
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To: eyeamok
The Arctic withdrawl, however, is nearly 100% comprehensive.


68 posted on 12/20/2016 5:26:37 PM PST by Lazamataz (TRUMP LIED TO ME!!!! ....He said I'd get sick of winning.... AND I'M NOT SICK OF WINNING YET!!!!)
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To: Innovative

Don’t know what his purpose is...not good.


69 posted on 12/20/2016 5:36:03 PM PST by SoFloFreeper (Isaiah 25:8)
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To: Innovative

Obama knows this. He’s deliberately being a punk pain in the butt.


70 posted on 12/20/2016 5:42:12 PM PST by fivecatsandadog (GO TRUMP! Drain the swamp!)
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To: Innovative

Trump should open up drilling under the soggy bottoms of D.C. The stuff that drains off that swamp is 100 octane. ~~Apologies to Pogo


71 posted on 12/20/2016 5:43:07 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: supremedoctrine
...He really does hate America...

Yes, he does. And you should watch this documentary that explains why:

2016: Obama's America

72 posted on 12/20/2016 5:45:55 PM PST by FReepaholic (Stupidity is not a crime, so you're free to go.)
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To: x1stcav

just issue one.

every executive order by barack obama is hereby officially revoked.


73 posted on 12/20/2016 5:49:13 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Innovative

Trump will hopefully cancel this EO.


74 posted on 12/20/2016 5:52:58 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Paladin2

Step 1. Get nominee on SCOTUS.
Step 2. Trump’s solicitor goes in front of SCOTUS.
Step 3. Trump wins....again.
Step 4. Drill Baby Drill


75 posted on 12/20/2016 6:01:42 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Too. Much. Winning.)
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To: Stevenc131; xzins
The law (an older law) on which Obama acted says the ban is permanent. Whether or not the law is constitutional is up for argument. I doubt it would stand up to a challenge by Trump, but the law as written allows the ban to be permanent.

Wrong. 43 U.S.C. 1341(a) does not give any president the authority to "permanently" remove any area from consideration for oil drilling leases. Read the statute:

§1341. Reservation of lands and rights
(a) Withdrawal of unleased lands by President The President of the United States may, from time to time, withdraw from disposition any of the unleased lands of the outer Continental Shelf.

Notice the words "may" and "from time to time". Any removal of land is only good as long as that president or the next president doesn't undo it. The law simply gives the president the power to issue a temporary executive order.

Obama may call it permanent and the press might call it permanent, but Trump can undo it on day one.

I'm an attorney. I do this stuff for a living.

76 posted on 12/20/2016 6:04:39 PM PST by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping list.)
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To: Innovative

obastard thinks that he is god and his word is final. What a narcissistic asshole.


77 posted on 12/20/2016 6:13:59 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Conservatives love America for what it is. Liberals hate America for the same reason.)
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To: Innovative

Once again the pres__ent _resident nine year old exercises a feat of futility.

Trump will strike these down the first week.

The nation’s record books will read, “Obama who?”


78 posted on 12/20/2016 6:17:57 PM PST by DoughtyOne (jcon40, "Are we be coming into the age of Sanity?")
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To: henkster

Everyone is saying that Trump can easily undo this. Don’t be so sure of that. Many of these laws are written in such a way that the president can issue new regulations or restrictions, but it takes an act of Congress to undo the restriction or regulation.


79 posted on 12/20/2016 6:22:57 PM PST by pstwwl
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To: P-Marlowe

Thanks for the good news based on reliable info and the law.


80 posted on 12/20/2016 6:30:37 PM PST by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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