Biden Offshore Drilling Ban Marks Climate Win, Which Trump Vows to Undo

With just two weeks left in his term, United States President Joe Biden has signed a ban on offshore oil and gas drilling in federal waters—a move that will require an act of Congress to reverse.

Supporters hailed the ban as a capstone on Biden’s environmental legacy. Biden has “conserved more lands and waters than any other U.S. president in history,” the White House said in a news release. Critics, however, slammed the “11th-hour” action as detrimental to consumers.

But the areas barred from leasing were not of immediate interest to the oil industry and do not include active developments, Mark James, an associate...

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