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He was able to cancel those ones because they were issued without proper environmental review and because they'd only just been issued. Even so, actually making the cancelation stick required winning a subsequent lawsuit.

Most other cases aren't ones where lease cancelation would win in court.

As I've said before, he has limited power to say 'no' to a drilling permit once a lease is issued. So what he has done is sharply reduce the issuance of new leases:

That's a very big deal, even if it isn't anywhere near enough.

Actually fixing the problem means:

• Having a majority in the House
• Having support in the Senate to overcome a filibuster and change the law (60% supermajority)
• Having courts willing to go along with breaking something they've previously deemed a 'property right'

That requires power that neither Biden nor the climate movement has yet held.

The US is extracting a lot more oil, but sharply cut its use of coal; gas, wind, and solar have displaced much of it for electric generation in the US because they're cheaper.

Oil use in the US has also been flat; the increased extraction is for export:

As to who: the bulk of it is from the fracking boom that's happened on private land in the Permian basin. There's something of an overhang of federal leases as well, but there has been a sharp cut in the quantity of new leases issued. (Drilling permits are another matter; there courts have generally ruled that the executive branch can't just decline to issue them once a lease is issued)

Individuals do really dumb things when there are financial incentives to do them.

It takes fixing those incentives.

Desalination tends not to be used by the coast because it's far more expensive than anything other than going without water.

That's pretty much where this goes if there's any meaningful pumping.

Her work predates the Build Back Better proposal; it started with her early advocacy for a Green New Deal and her legislative involvement continued through casting the tiebreaking vote in the Senate to pass the Inflation Reduction Act — literally using the one meaningful power the Vice President has to pass tiebreaking legislation.

It only makes sense to me if he killed the bear and wants to spin it as finding a bear somebody else had already killed. But then, I don't have brain worms, so who knows.

It's really expensive. Cultivation outside Mexico already depends on child labor because the bees it needs only live in Mexico

Eating undercooked animals is how you get brain worms.

It would be if the President didn't have any actual power. His actual policy positions seem to involve bringing back measles and taking money out of my pocket to give it to the who have funded his campaign

Your cat is probably secretly accepting tuna juice from the communists down the street.