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Trump Plans to Open More Than a Billion Acres of U.S. Waters to Drilling (www.nytimes.com)
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The plan from the Interior Department is one of the president’s most significant steps yet to increase domestic fossil fuel production.

I will note that the US is a net oil exporter, so this is all for overseas consumption.

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[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 3 points 6 hours ago

The gulf is already a shit show. How about every rig put the full cost of decommissioning into an interest bearing escrow account and anyone who buys the rig gets the account as part of the process (stay sin escrow until decommission)

[–] bear@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

An area about eight times the size of Texas.