'Epic ocean victory': Biden permanently bans offshore drilling across 625 million acres

Outgoing President Joe Biden on Monday moved to permanently ban offshore oil and gas drilling across more than 625 million acres of U.S. coastal territory, protecting swaths of the East Coast, the eastern Gulf of Mexico, the Pacific, and Alaska's Northern Bering Sea from fossil fuel exploitation just before President-elect Donald Trump is set to retake power.

Biden said in a statement that his decision "reflects what coastal communities, businesses, and beachgoers have known for a long time...