The Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf Region is broken up into three planning areas: the Western Planning Area (off the coast of Texas), the Central Planning Area (off the coast of Louisiana ...
President Biden’s move to bar drilling across the U.S.’s East ... Continental Shelf Lands Act gives presidents the right to block drilling in certain areas but not to reinstate it.
President Biden has blocked new offshore drilling for oil and gas in several parts of the country about two weeks before President-elect Trump takes office. Biden has announced that he’ll block ...
President Biden is using a decades-old law to block drilling for oil in more than 625 million acres of U.S. ocean — the largest region a president has ever protected using this authority. It's a move ...