President Obama has withdrawn hundreds of millions of acres of federally owned land in the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans from future offshore oil and gas drilling.
He used a little-known law called the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act.
And as US Correspondent Rachel Silverman reports, under that law, a president is not authorized to "undo" a previous withdrawal.
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