Trump Moves to Expand Offshore Arctic, Atlantic Areas for Oil and Gas Drilling

摘要

President Donald Trump moved to expand offshore oil drilling in Arctic and Atlantic federal waters and to reconsider rules that safeguard the activity—including mandates designed to prevent a repeat of the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Trump on April 28 ordered Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to revise a five-year schedule for auctioning offshore drilling rights with the aim of potentially including territory left out by former President Barack Obama. Trump's executive order also seeks to reverse a potentially more enduring decision by Obama to indefinitely withdraw most U.S. Arctic waters and some Atlantic Ocean areas from leasing.