Joe Biden might be a lame duck, be he's got one thing still propelling him forward: spite. 

In his latest act of revenge against Donald Trump, Biden is dusting off a nearly-century old law to block the incoming president's "drill baby drill" agenda.

Biden is using the 119-year-old Antiquities Act to designate two national monuments comprising over 800,000 acres of land in California that are considered precious to native tribes.

Biden blocks Trump.... again

During his first term, Trump targeted the designations of some monuments under the Antiquities Act by past presidents, including Barack Obama.

Biden is using the law to designate the Chuckwalla National Monument in the deserts of southern California and the Sáttítla Highlands National Monuments in the north of the state.

Biden had planned to give a speech in Southern California announcing the new monuments, but those plans were scuttled by the wildfires ravaging Los Angeles.

"With today’s designations and yesterday’s actions to protect the East and West coasts and the Northern Bering Sea from offshore oil and natural gas drilling, President Biden has now protected 674 million acres of U.S. lands and waters," the White House touted in a press release.

Transition disrupted

Biden has aggressively put the muscle of federal government towards clamping down on the oil and gas industry, drawing ire from Trump, who has accused Biden of sabotage with some of his final executive orders.

The lame duck president isn't being modest about stretching his authority, introducing a sweeping ban on offshore drilling that is based on a 72-year-old law, the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act.

The moratorium, covering 625 million acres of federal waters, provoked a heated response from Trump, who pledged to quickly undo the move.

The Continental Shelf Lands Act allows presidents to withdraw leases for federal waters but does not grant power to unilaterally reverse those decisions, so Trump may need approval from Congress to move ahead.

"They took away 625 million acres of offshore drilling... nobody else does that. I’m going to have it revoked on day one," he said at Mar-A-Lago Tuesday.

"If we need to we’ll go to the courts, if they try to be sneaky... remember this is a man who said he wants the transition to be smooth. You don’t do those kind of things.”

Trump has pledged to get rid of Biden's "green new scam" and expand fossil fuel production to ease energy costs, but Biden is clearly doing everything he can to get in the way.