By Jarrett Renshaw
(Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump signed an government order on Monday repealing former President Joe Biden’s efforts to dam oil drilling within the Arctic and alongside massive areas off the U.S. coasts, in keeping with the White Home.
Biden this month banned new offshore oil and gasoline improvement alongside most U.S. coastlines forward of Trump taking workplace.
Biden’s transfer had been thought-about largely symbolic, as it could not affect areas the place oil and gasoline improvement was presently underway, and primarily coated zones the place drillers had no essential prospects, together with within the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
Trump additionally repealed a 2023 memo that barred oil drilling in some 16 million acres (6.5 million hectares) within the Arctic, the White Home introduced.
The oil drilling ban was considered one of dozens of actions taken by Biden that have been repealed by Trump in his first day in workplace.
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