Trump Moves to Open Up 625 Million Acres to Offshore Drilling

President Trump enacted an earlier promise to reverse President Biden’s ban on offshore drilling and open up drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and National Petroleum Reserve. The moves came immediately after Trump was inaugurated as the 47th president of the United States on Monday, January 20.  The slew of executive orders (EOs) signed by Trump included the repeal of 78 Biden-era executive actions and the withdrawal of the U.S. from the Paris Climate Treaty — the latter also done under Trump’s first…