President Joe Biden moved on Monday to block future oil and natural gas drilling and protect around 625 million acres of U.S. ocean, including the entire East Coast offshore as well as some areas off the West Coast, in the Gulf of Mexico, and in Alaska’s Northern Bering Sea. “My decision reflects what coastal communities, businesses, and beachgoers have known for a long time: that drilling off these coasts could cause irreversible damage to places we hold dear and is unnecessary to meet our nation’s energy needs,” Biden said in...

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...

The White House has announced its latest eleventh-hour action to curb President-elect Donald Trump’s pro-oil agenda with an executive order banning new oil and gas drilling in some federal waters. The last-minute executive order comes two weeks before Trump is set to take office and on the same day that Congress is set to certify the results of the 2024 presidential election. President Joe Biden said Monday that he was invoking his authority under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, a 1953 law that controls developments for offshore oil and...

President Biden announced an 11th-hour executive action on Monday that bans new drilling and further oil and natural gas development on more than 625 million acres of U.S. coastal and offshore waters. Biden, whose term expires in two weeks, said he is using authority to protect offshore areas along the East and West coasts, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and portions of Alaska's Northern Bering Sea from future oil and natural gas leasing. He invoked the 1953 Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, meaning President-elect Trump could be limited in his...

President Joe Biden is taking steps to prohibit new offshore oil and gas drilling in most U.S. coastal waters, a late-term move aimed at preempting potential efforts by the incoming Trump administration to broaden offshore drilling activities. With just two weeks left in his presidency, Biden announced he is invoking authority under the federal Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to safeguard coastal waters along the East and West coasts, the eastern Gulf of Mexico, and parts of Alaska's Northern Bering Sea from future oil and gas leasing. The decision underscores...

Jan 6 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will ban new offshore oil and gas development along most U.S. coastlines, a decision that President-elect Donald Trump, who has vowed to boost domestic energy production, may find difficult to reverse. The White House said on Monday Biden will use his authority under the 70-year-old Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to protect all federal waters off the East and West coasts, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and portions of the northern Bering Sea in Alaska. The ban will affect 625 million acres...

President-elect Donald Trump said he plans to immediately reverse President Biden's new ban on offshore drilling along most of the U.S. coastline, but he faces major roadblocks under a 70-year, irrevocable law. Throughout his 2024 presidential campaign, Trump vowed that, if elected, he would expand oil and gas drilling in an effort to bolster American-made energy. However, Biden issued an 11th-hour executive order Monday morning to forestall such actions exactly two weeks before his term ends, announcing a permanent stop to most new oil and gas drilling across U.S. coastal...