The decision adds to a closure Obama created. It’s not clear Trump can reverse it without an act of Congress. The oil and gas industry is not active in the area.

Alaska’s congressional delegation is responding on Monday—some members more vocally than others—to the White House’s announcement that President Joe Biden will ban new offshore oil and gas drilling along most of the U.

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President Joe Biden will prohibit future oil and gas leasing across large swaths of the Atlantic, Pacific, eastern Gulf of Mexico and North Bering Sea.

The ban affects the entire Eastern Seaboard, the Pacific Coast along California, Oregon and Washington, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the Northern Bering Sea.

The decision removes the possibility that areas off the Atlantic, Pacific and the east Gulf Coast will being surveyed for oil and gas drilling. During the earlier years of the previous Trump administration,

President Joe Biden's move to protect offshore areas is largely symbolic, but the economic factors that may limit oil output gains are very real.

The president will prohibit future oil and gas drilling off the East and West coasts, eastern Gulf of Mexico and remaining portions of Alaska's Northern Bering Sea

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Tuesday he will move quickly to revoke an offshore oil and gas drilling ban announced by outgoing Democratic President Joe Biden. "Banning offshore drilling will not stand.