President Joe Biden will prohibit future oil and gas leasing across large swaths of the Atlantic, Pacific, eastern Gulf of Mexico and North Bering Sea.

Environmental groups applauded President Joe Biden’s decision on Monday to enact a sweeping ban on new offshore oil and gas drilling along most of the U.S. coastline. But the ban had one glaring omission: It didn’t include the western Gulf of Mexico ...

President Joe Biden announced on Monday action to protect the entire U.S. East coast, eastern Gulf of Mexico, and the Pacific Ocean off the shores of California, Oregon, and Washington to limit oil dr

An oil drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico. (Getty Images) An energy industry researcher says, despite both praise and criticism of President Joe Biden’s executive order banning offshore drilling in huge swaths off much of the nation’s coastline ...

President Joe Biden has announced prohibitions on future oil and gas drilling across parts of the Atlantic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, the eastern Gulf of Mexico, and the Northern Bering Sea. This withdrawal of rights will not affect the majority of offshore drilling in the U.

Biden invoked the 2010 BP oil spill, but his ban doesn’t include the area of the Gulf where the spill occurred.

The move would bar new oil and gas leases along the Atlantic coast, the eastern Gulf of Mexico, the Pacific coast and portions of the northern Bering Sea

President-elect Donald Trump claimed he was going to rename the Gulf of Mexico and blasted President Joe Biden's transition out of office.

Monday's announcement covers the entire East Coast and West Coast, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and a portion of the Bering Sea.

President Joe Biden is making a sweeping move to ban all future offshore oil and natural gas drilling on America's East and West coasts, the Eastern Gulf of Mexico and Alaska's North Bering Sea -- a move President-elect Donald Trump is angrily vowing to reverse.

Louisiana leaders, including AG Liz Murrill, are pushing back against President Biden’s offshore oil drilling ban. Signaling a lawsuit, Murrill has called the move a “direct

A 70-year-old law makes revoking the offshore drilling ban tricky, but Biden's ban might not have a big impact on U.S. drilling anyway.