US President Joe Biden has announced a ban on offshore oil and gas drilling along much of America's coastline, weeks before Donald Trump takes office.
According to foreign media, during his campaign, Trump pledged to "unleash" domestic fossil fuel production in an effort to lower gas costs, despite the US already seeing record high rates of its extraction.
The ban announced by Biden covers the entire Atlantic coast and the eastern Gulf of Mexico, as well as the Pacific coast near California, Oregon and Washington, and part of the Bering Sea off Alaska, writes A2 CNN.
This is the latest in a string of last-minute climate policy actions by the Biden administration before Trump returns to the White House.
Biden said in a statement: "My decision reflects what coastal communities, businesses and beachgoers have known for a long time: that drilling on these shores can cause irreversible damage to the places we love and is unnecessary to meet our nation's energy needs.
"It's not worth the risks," added President Biden, A2 CNN writes. (A2 Televizion)
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