So Cute! GQP Congress: Drilling For Oil In YOUR States, But Absolutely Not In OUR States!
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President Donald Trump and and his allies in Congress are moving to open more federal lands and waters to oil and gas development — something that was central to the Republicans’ 2024 campaigns — but that doesn’t mean all GOP lawmakers want development off their coasts. “Not off of Florida’s coast,” said Florida Rep. Byron Donalds, a conservative who Trump endorsed to become governor. “I will tell my colleagues, you can do that wherever you want, but not off of Florida’s coast.”
Biden’s limits cover federal waters off the East and West coasts, and around Florida. Unlike most existing restrictions, they are meant to be permanent. Then-Senate Energy and Natural Resources ranking member John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) said after the announcement, “This is Joe Biden’s final insult to American families.” But Republican Rep. Carlos Giménez, who represents the entire southern tip of the Sunshine State, said dryly when asked about offshore drilling: “Not in Florida.”
On his first day in office, just after taking the oath of office, Trump signed an executive order attacking a number of Biden directions — including on offshore drilling. Last month the White House, in its rapid response X account, said Interior Secretary Doug Burgum was “reopening leasing on 625 million acres of federal waters.” But environmental groups are suing the administration, arguing that only Congress can undo the former president’s eleventh-hour directives under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act.
Indeed, an Alaska federal judge ruled against a Trump move during his first term to undo Obama-era restrictions, but the legal question is considered unsettled. That’s why Republicans are considering going after Biden’s actions in their party-line budget reconciliation bill. The reconciliation process allows lawmakers to pass legislation with a fiscal nexus by simple majority.
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https://www.eenews.net/articles/republican-push-to-expand-offshore-drilling-has-its-limits-2/