As of January 7, 2025, President Joe Biden announced an executive action to protect over 625 million acres of US coastline areas from future offshore drilling. [1] This includes the entire East Coast, the eastern Gulf of Mexico, the Pacific Ocean off the coasts of Washington, Oregon, and California, and additional portions of the North Bering Sea in Alaska. President Biden invoked the 1953 Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, which gives presidents broad authority to withdraw federal waters from future oil and gas leasing and development. To reverse the ban, this law would have to be changed.
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