Overturn Biden’s Offshore Energy Ban Act
This bill rescinds two presidential memoranda that banned oil and gas leasing in specific offshore areas. It directly affects oil and gas companies by removing restrictions on leasing in the Gulf of Mexico, Atlantic, Pacific, and Bering Sea regions of the outer continental shelf. The key mechanism is declaring the January 6, 2025, memoranda "have no force or effect," effectively restoring those areas to the federal leasing program. This would allow new oil and gas development permits in those previously restricted waters.
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Introduced Jan 15, 2025
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