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\"PlatformHolly\"<\/a>President Obama, evidently striking a blow for the environment before Donald Trump takes office, put much of the Eastern seaboard off limits for off-shore drilling. \u00a0He invoked a law that reportedly cannot be reversed by a new president.<\/p>\n

From\u00a0<\/span>President Obama bans oil drilling in large areas of Atlantic and Arctic oceans \u2013 The Washington Post<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n

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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 new offshore oil and gas drilling.<\/p>\n

Obama used a little-known law called the\u00a0Outer 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. In addition to a five-year moratorium already in place in the Atlantic, removing the canyons from drilling puts much of the eastern seaboard off limits to oil exploration even if companies develop plans to operate around them.<\/p>\n

The announcement by the White House late in the afternoon was coordinated with similar steps being taken by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to shield large areas of that nation\u2019s Arctic waters from drilling. Neither measure affects leases already held by oil and gas companies and drilling activity in state waters. . . .<\/p>\n

White House officials described their actions to make the areas off limits to future oil and gas exploration and drilling as indefinite. Officials said the withdrawals under Section 12-A of the 1953 act used by presidents dating to Dwight Eisenhower cannot be undone by an incoming president. It is not clear if a Republican-controlled Congress can rescind Obama\u2019s action.<\/p>\n

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