Jan 6, 2025 · As Biden’s presidency draws to a close, environmental and climate groups have advocated for him to withdraw areas off the Eastern Gulf of Mexico, as well as other parts of the Atlantic and...

2 days ago · Biden used his powers under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to ban offshore drilling not only in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico, but also along the entire Atlantic Coast and the Pacific coasts ...

Jan 6, 2025 · President Joe Biden is making a sweeping move to ban all future offshore oil and natural gas drilling on America's East and West coasts, the Eastern Gulf of Mexico and Alaska's North Bering Sea -- a move President-elect Donald Trump is angrily vowing to reverse.

Jan 6, 2025 · US President Joe Biden has announced a ban on new offshore oil and gas drilling along most of America's coastline, weeks before Donald Trump takes office. The ban covers the entire Atlantic...

Jan 6, 2025 · The order will protect 625 million acres of ocean along America’s Atlantic and Pacific coasts, the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska’s Bering Sea from "environmental and economic risks and harms,"...

Jan 7, 2025 · On Monday, Biden barred new drilling off the East and West coasts of the U.S. and in a portion of Alaska and the Eastern Gulf of Mexico. The move leaves the central and western Gulf of...

Jan 6, 2025 · Specifically, Biden’s executive action will ban new oil and gas leasing across 625 million acres of ocean along the entire East Coast, the eastern Gulf of Mexico, the coasts of Washington, Oregon and California, and portions of Alaska’s Northern Bering Sea.

President Joe Biden's administration has proposed up to three oil and gas lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico over the next five years but none in Alaska.

Jan 6, 2025 · Biden has previously protected much smaller regions from oil development, but Monday's announcement covers vastly more territory: the entire East Coast and West Coast, the eastern Gulf of Mexico ...

Sep 29, 2023 · WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden's administration on Friday proposed up to three oil and gas lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico but none in Alaska as it tries to navigate between energy...