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Judge restores Obama-era drilling ban in Arctic, says Trump exceeded his authority


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https://www.bostonherald.com/2019/03/31/judge-restores-obama-era-drilling-ban-in-arctic/

 

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President Donald Trump exceeded his authority when he reversed bans on offshore drilling in vast parts of the Arctic Ocean and dozens of canyons in the Atlantic Ocean, a U.S. judge said in a ruling that restored the Obama-era restrictions.

 

U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason in a decision late Friday threw out Trump’s executive order that overturned the bans that comprised a key part of Obama’s environmental legacy.

 

Presidents have the power under a federal law to remove certain lands from development but cannot revoke those removals, Gleason said.

 

“The wording of President Obama’s 2015 and 2016 withdrawals indicates that he intended them to extend indefinitely, and therefore be revocable only by an act of Congress,” said Gleason, who was nominated to the bench by Obama.

 

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On 3/31/2019 at 10:45 AM, sblfilms said:

This stuff is so weird to me. It is an area I don’t feel like I have much understanding of.

It is the continental shelf act that became law after Truman talked about it in the late 40s. It has never been tested all the way to the Supreme Court. 

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