Outgoing U.S. President Joe Biden announced on Monday a sweeping ban on offshore drilling, covering vast stretches of American coastal waters, just weeks before President-elect Donald Trump takes office. The prohibition spans the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, the eastern Gulf of Mexico, and parts of the Bering Sea, safeguarding 625 million acres of ocean under …

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