One of the plethora of executive orders President Donald Trump signed on his first day in office aimed at boosting oil and gas drilling, mining and logging in Alaska. While state political leaders ...

President Joe Biden banned new offshore oil and gas drilling along the U.S. coastlines, prompting complaints from President-elect Donald Trump that Biden is “doing everything possible to make ...

Biden is set within days to issue the executive order barring the sale of new drilling rights in portions of the country’s outer continental shelf, according to people familiar with the effort ...

President Joe Biden is planning to prohibit future offshore oil and gas drilling along most of the nation’s coastline, setting up a potential roadblock for Republicans’ plans to expand ...

Biden invoked the 1953 Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, which gives presidents broad authority to implement drilling bans, but does not give them the authority to reverse them—meaning Trump ...

During his final weeks in the White House, President Joe Biden is expected to issue an executive order prohibiting new offshore oil and gas drilling, a move that would help protect areas of the ...

President Joe Biden is set to order a ban on new offshore oil and gas development across some 625 million acres of US coastal territory, ruling out the sale of drilling rights in Atlantic and ...

Passed in 1953, the law controls developments for offshore oil and gas drilling. A provision of the law gives the executive office the authority to permanently protect federal waters from future ...

President Joe Biden is moving to ban new offshore oil and gas drilling in most U.S. coastal waters, a last-minute effort to block possible action by the incoming Trump administration to expand ...

Biden is set within days to issue the executive order barring the sale of new drilling rights in portions of the country’s outer continental shelf, according to people familiar with the effort ...

The new protections, which take effect immediately, create a legal hurdle that could slow down, though probably not stop, efforts by the Trump administration to expand drilling in part of the ...