As President Biden prepares to shuffle off the stage, he’s attempting to burnish his tarnished legacy with last-minute administrative actions.
Rarely has there been a more concerted effort by a country’s leadership to eliminate a source of national strength than the Biden administration’s war on fossil fuels.
As President Biden prepares to shuffle off the stage, he’s attempting to burnish his tarnished legacy with last-minute administrative actions.
To that end, he has just banned new offshore drilling along an enormous swath of the U.S. coastline as part of — as a White House statement put it — “the most ambitious climate and conservation agenda in our country’s history.”
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