In a significant move, President Biden has banned new offshore oil and gas drilling in U.S. waters, protecting over 625 million acres. This decision, made under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, aims to bolster climate protections just weeks before Donald Trump takes office, who has pledged to expand fossil fuel production.
Biden's ban on offshore drilling is part of his administration's broader climate agenda, which has faced opposition from the incoming Trump administration. The ban is intended to safeguard coastal communities and ecosystems from the risks associated with fossil fuel extraction.
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Donald John Trump is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021.
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Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. is an American politician who is the 46th and current president of the United States. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 47th vice president from 2009 to 2017 and represented Delaware in the United States Senate
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Oceana may refer to:
Oceana (singer), a German singer
Oceana (album), an album by Derek Sherinian
Oceana (band), an American post-hardcore band
Oceana (nightclub), a chain of nightclubs in the United Kingdom
Oceana (non-profit group), an ocean conservati
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The Gulf of Mexico is an ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, largely surrounded by the North American continent.
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Alaska is a state located in the northwest extremity of the United States West Coast, just across the Bering Strait from Asia. An exclave of the U.S., it borders the Canadian province of British Columbia and territory of Yukon to the east and southeast an
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California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States. With 39.5 million residents across a total area of about 163,696 square miles, California is the most populous U.S. state and the third-largest by area, and is also the world's thirty-fourt
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Florida is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States. With a population of over 21 million, Florida is the third-most populous and the 22nd-most extensive of the 50 United States.
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Barack Hussein Obama II is an American attorney and politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first African American President of the United States. He previously serve
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The International Energy Agency is a Paris-based autonomous intergovernmental organization established in the framework of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in 1974 in the wake of the 1973 oil crisis.
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Earthjustice is a non-profit public interest organization based in the United States dedicated to litigating environmental issues.
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The Natural Resources Defense Council is a United States-based 501 non-profit international environmental advocacy group, with its headquarters in New York City and offices in Washington D.C., San Francisco, Los Angeles, New Delhi, Chicago, Bozeman, and B
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The Deepwater Horizon oil spill was an industrial disaster that began on 20 April 2010, in the Gulf of Mexico on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect, considered to be the largest marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry and estimated to be 8
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The Paris Agreement is an agreement within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, dealing with greenhouse-gas-emissions mitigation, adaptation, and finance, signed in 2016.