President Joe Biden issued an executive order banning new offshore oil and gas drilling along most of the U.S. coastline, including significant areas of the California coast. Biden used his authority under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act of 1953 to withdraw the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) areas from oil or natural gas leasing. The withdrawal doe…
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