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.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Biden announced Monday that he is banning offshore oil and gas drilling in large swaths of federal waters, including 44 million acres off Alaska, in the Northern Bering Sea.
“In Alaska, dozens of Tribes have fought to protect the Northern Bering Sea, a vital ocean ecosystem that supports their traditional ways of life. Vice President Harris and I have listened,” Biden said in his President Obama created the Bering Sea Climate Resilience Area in 2016 and closed most of the northern portion to oil and gas drilling. President Biden announced Jan. 6, 2025 that he is closing the remainder.
The ban doesn’t cancel any planned lease sales or shut down active development. It continues to allow drilling in the central and western Gulf of Mexico, wherethen-President Obama made. He created the Northern Bering Sea Climate Resilience Area and closed about half of it to oil and gas drilling. Biden is closing the rest of the area, using a provision of the 1953 Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act.
It’s not clear that incoming President Donald Trump can reverse the ban without an act of Congress. The law doesn’t have a provision for reversing a presidential withdrawal. In 2019, a U.S. District Court judge in Anchorage. In a social media post, U.S. Rep. Nick Begich noted the importance of Cook Inlet gas to Alaskans. Biden’s closure doesn’t extend to Cook Inlet.is one of our partner stations in Anchorage.
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