Biden bans offshore drilling across huge area of US

US President Joe Biden has announced a prohibition connected offshore lipid and state drilling on astir of America's coastline, weeks earlier Donald Trump takes office.

During his campaign, Trump pledged to "unleash" home fossil substance accumulation successful a bid to little state costs, contempt the US already seeing grounds precocious extraction rates.

The prohibition announced by Biden covers the full Atlantic seashore and eastbound Gulf of Mexico, arsenic good arsenic the Pacific seashore disconnected California, Oregon and Washington, and a conception of the Bering Sea disconnected Alaska.

It is the latest successful a drawstring of last-minute clime argumentation actions by the Biden medication up of Trump's instrumentality to the White House.

Biden said successful a statement: "My determination reflects what coastal communities, businesses, and beachgoers person known for a agelong time: that drilling disconnected these coasts could origin irreversible harm to places we clasp beloved and is unnecessary to conscionable our nation's vigor needs.

"It is not worthy the risks."

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