President Biden bans new offshore drilling in 625 million acres of U.S. coastal waters

Biden’s actions could be difficult for President-elect Donald Trump to unwind.

President Joe Biden is moving to ban new offshore oil and gas drilling in most U.S. coastal waters, a last-minute effort to block possible action by the incoming Trump administration to expand offshore drilling.

Biden, whose term expires in two weeks, said he is using authority under the federal Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to protect offshore areas along the East and West coasts, the eastern Gulf...