Biden bans new offshore oil drilling in California, most US coastal waters

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : Gov. Jerry Brown signed a law that year prohibiting California's State Lands Commission from approving any new pipelines, wharfs or other facilities out to three miles offshore that could be used to expand oil production.
54% : I'll unban it immediately," Trump said in a radio interview on "The Hugh Hewitt Show.
46% : in January 2018, Trump announced he would seek to open 90% of the offshore areas in the United States, including most of the California coast, to new oil and gas drilling.
43% : After Republicans in Florida, North Carolina, and other states told Trump officials that he had a better chance of winning there in the 2020 presidential election if he dropped oil drilling plans, he used the same 1953 law Biden used Monday to withdraw those areas from drilling until 2032.
20% : After former President Barrack Obama used the law to ban drilling in parts of the Arctic Ocean off Alaska, Trump repealed his order after taking office in 2017.

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