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In 1969 drilling bans were established for offshore California and Florida, and in 1990 President George H. W. Bush banned offshore drilling entirely. Nevertheless, offshore drilling continued in offshore Texas and Louisiana. Offshore drilling became central in the 2008 presidential election, not least because of the oil price increases since 2003.
Only about 15% comes from offshore drilling in federal waters, and that is overwhelmingly concentrated in the western and central Gulf of Mexico, according to the U.S. Energy Information ...
Offshore drilling began in California in 1896, when operators in the Summerland Oil Field in Santa Barbara County followed the field into the ocean by drilling from piers built out over the ocean. Leasing California state seabed is controlled by the State Lands Commission, which halted further leasing of state offshore tracts after the Santa ...
While Biden views his offshore drilling ban as a way to hasten the United States’ “transitio[n] to a clean energy economy,” his successor wants to maximize U.S. oil and gas production to ...
A person fishes with offshore oil and gas platform Esther in the distance on January 5, 2025 in Seal Beach, California. President Joe Biden has permanently banned future offshore oil and gas ...
Concurrent with this activity, efforts to educate the citizenry about seismic testing and offshore drilling include manning an information booth at the annual Earth Day event [6] and sponsoring a film screening that same month at the Oak Recreation Center focused on off-shore drilling concerns. [7]
After proposing a major expansion in offshore drilling early in his first term, Trump in 2020 extended a ban on future oil drilling in the Eastern Gulf and expanded it to include the Atlantic ...
President Biden has blocked new offshore drilling for oil and gas in several parts of the country about two weeks before President-elect Trump takes office. Biden has announced he’ll block new ...