For instance, Obama had used his authority under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to protect Arctic areas from oil drilling late past year, a move Trump's order seeks to undo.
Gulf Economic Survival Team Executive Director Lori LeBlanc called the move a "positive first step" for the oil and gas industry toward job creation and boosting the national economy. "But the federal government has kept 94 percent of these offshore areas closed for exploration and production".
In the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Trump said the United States is blessed with wonderful natural resources, including offshore oil and natural gas reserves, which can be harnessed to stimulate energy production and job growth.
"This executive order starts the process of opening offshore areas to job creating energy exploration", said Trump. 'We do not want oil drilling off our coast.
Jacqueline Savitz of the ocean advocacy group Oceana warned the order would lead to "corner-cutting and set us up for another havoc-wreaking environmental disaster" in places like the Outer Banks or in remote Barrow, Alaska, "where there's no proven way to remove oil from sea ice".
"I'm sure whatever recommendation I make, I believe we'll have the legal authority to do it", Zinke said.
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Trump campaigned on a promise to do away with Obama-era environmental protections that he said were hobbling energy development and undermining U.S. national security without providing any tangible benefits.
It will also direct Zinke to conduct a review of the locations available for offshore drilling under a five-year plan signed by Obama in November. Nonetheless, Trump's order Friday requires the Interior Department to review the oil and gas potential of marine sanctuaries Obama created and expanded.
Once implemented, the order will open up millions of acres of federal waters to allow oil and gas exploration, leasing and drilling.
The Energy Information Administration predicts that in the year 2040, traditional forms of energy, particularly fossil fuels, will provide nearly 80 percent of our energy needs, says Luthi. The drilling restrictions, which were put into place previous year by Mr Obama, were set to expire in 2022. At the time, Obama administration lawyers said they were confident that move would be upheld in court.
"No matter how much money it spends or how many lobbyists it places inside the Trump administration, "Big Oil" can never nor will never drown out the voices of millions of Americans across the country who spoke out against unsafe offshore drilling", Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune said in a statement. But even if they are eventually rolled back, there are questions about how effective the executive order will be in spurring new drilling. The reasoning behind this decision was an interpretation of the 1953 law to mean that the president has the power to withdraw areas of U.S. sea floor from use, while giving no powers to successors to reinstate those areas for use unless Congress goes back and amends the 1953 law.
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