https://www.siliconvalley.com/2025/01/06/new-offshore-oil-drilling-ban-biden-california/

In a sweeping environmental decision during the final days of his presidency, President Biden on Monday banned new offshore oil and gas drilling across 625 million acres of America’s oceans, including all federal waters in the Pacific off California, Oregon and Washington.

Biden said the move, which also includes a prohibition on the Atlantic coast from Maine to Florida, across the eastern Gulf of Mexico and in portions of the Bering Sea in Alaska, is vital to protect coastal communities, marine wildlife, the fishing industry and tourism from pollution and oil spills, such as the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.