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I don’t have the patience to sit through that entire boring video for just one sentence. Anyone wanna give me a time stamp to jump to?
On the desktop version of YouTube, click the three dots to the bottom right of the video and a menu pops up. In that menu, choose 'view transcript' and you can then do a text search of the audio on it. The relevant spot is at 7min 30sec
In terms of what he has done:
What he hasn't done: stop issuing drilling permits. This is because the US courts have generally held that once a lease is issued, the right to drill is a property right, and you'd need to pay the leaseholder to not drill at all.
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