Biden Bans New Oil and Gas Drilling Along Most U.S. Coasts

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

42% : "Preventing new drilling might also reduce the burning of fossil fuels that produce the pollution that is dangerously heating the planet, environmental groups said.
28% : "It's unquestionably within Biden's powers to do this and there's a big legal question about whether Trump can undo it ," said Michael Gerrard, the director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University.
24% : And they've never done that, as President Trump found out when he initially proposed opening up those states," Mr. Davis said, noting how Mr. Trump in 2018 tried to open all American waters to drilling but faced an immediate backlash from his own party and quickly walked back his effort.

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