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Explainer-Can Trump overturn Biden's offshore drilling ban?

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President Donald Trump in an executive order on Monday revoked a ban imposed by former Democratic President Joe Biden on new offshore oil and gas development along most of the country's coastlines.

Biden on Jan. 6 used his authority under the 70-year-old Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to withdraw all federal waters off the East and West coasts, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and portions of the northern Bering Sea in Alaska .

Experts say the question of whether a president can revoke a predecessor's decision to invoke the act remains legally unsettled.

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