Biden to Ban More Offshore Oil Drilling Before Trump Arrives
- Order would set permanent protections for some coastal waters
- Decree to complicate Trump’s plan to boost US crude production
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President Joe Biden is preparing to issue a decree permanently banning new offshore oil and gas development in some US coastal waters, locking in difficult-to-revoke protections during his final weeks in the White House.
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 who asked not to be named because the decision isn’t public.