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A Trump Win Would Threaten Historic Climate Progress in North Carolina (www.rollingstone.com)
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[-] Jack@lemmy.ca -4 points 1 month ago

As he campaigned for president in 2020, Joe Biden made a bold promise at a New Hampshire town hall, adding repetition for emphasis: “No more drilling on federal lands. Period. Period. Period. Period.” […] The Biden administration has now outpaced the Trump administration in approving permits for drilling on public lands, and the United States is producing more oil than any country ever has. […] The reality is the United States is already dominant. The country is expected to produce 13.2 million barrels of oil per day on average this year — millions of barrels more than Saudi Arabia or Russia. https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/08/16/biden-oil-drilling-production/

The slightly-lesser evil is still omnicidally evil.

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 month ago

They did try an end to drilling permits, and lost in court — the US court system considers drilling rights to be a property right once you have a lease, so you can't easily just say no.

They then cut the issuance of leases to the congressionally-mandated minimum.

numerical non-graph form of the data is here

[-] derek@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 month ago

I've never seen this chart. What a story!

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah, there has been no press coverage of it whatsoever; there's one substack post showing a year-old version of it.

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