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While Biden views his offshore drilling ban as a way to hasten the United States’ “transitio[n] to a clean energy economy,” his successor wants to maximize U.S. oil and gas production to ...
President Biden announced an 11th-hour executive action on Monday that bans new drilling and further oil and natural gas development on more than 625 million acres of U.S. coastal and offshore waters.
President Donald Trump in an executive order on Monday revoked a ban imposed by former Democratic President Joe Biden on new offshore oil and gas development along most of the country's coastlines.
Offshore drilling began in California in 1896, when operators in the Summerland Oil Field in Santa Barbara County followed the field into the ocean by drilling from piers built out over the ocean. Leasing California state seabed is controlled by the State Lands Commission, which halted further leasing of state offshore tracts after the Santa ...
He signed a memorandum in 2020 directing the Interior secretary to prohibit drilling in the waters off both Florida coasts, and off the coasts of Georgia and South Carolina until 2032. Earlier in his term, Trump had initially moved to vastly expand offshore drilling, before retreating amid widespread opposition in Florida and other coastal states.
Commercial oil and gas drilling has never occurred offshore Virginia. Unlike the offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, which occurs in both state and federal waters, the proposed offshore Virginia drilling would be exclusively in Federal waters more than 50 miles (80 km) from the coast, and the state has not leased its state waters for drilling.
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 ...
Offshore drilling became central in the 2008 presidential election, not least because of the oil price increases since 2003. It was also being debated in terms of both environmental issues and U.S. energy independence. As of September 2008, President Barack Obama was for limited offshore drilling as part of an extensive energy independence ...