
WASHINGTON ― President Joe Biden on Monday took sweeping action to permanently ban offshore oil and gas drilling off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, protecting more than 625 million federal acres from future leasing. But President-elect Donald Trump vowed he will work to overturn the ban, calling Biden's 11th-hour move "ridiculous" and promising to "unban it immediately." Biden, two weeks before his term ends, issued two presidential memoranda under the 1953 Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to prohibit offshore drilling off the entire U.S. Atlantic coast, the eastern Gulf of...