The Trump administration is preparing to open the door to oil and gas drilling off Florida’s coast — after the November election
A second person who recently spoke to Interior officials said they had predicted that the plan would probably come out after the Nov. 3 election but before Trump’s current term ends in January. The timing was driven partly by the sensitive politics in Florida, but also because Interior Secretary David Bernhardt was conducting reviews to ensure it was legally defensible, the person said.
Interior did not answer specific questions about when it might release the proposal. The agency has been mostly silent on the plan’s future after Bernhardt in April 2019 said it was “indefinitely” delaying releasing its offshore drilling proposal, following a court ruling that upheld an Obama-era ban on drilling in certain Arctic coastal areas — a decision that blew a hole in the department‘s plans to also include that area in the new plan.
Interior’s drive to open up more areas to drilling is currently facing market headwinds. Oil producers have slashed their 2020 budgets amid a cash crunch brought on by low oil prices from the coronavirus pandemic, “They’d watch and think, 'It’s ridiculous we haven’t purchased [leases] for dimes on the dollars,'” the person said.
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