Biden’s order — the largest such mineral withdrawal in U.S. history — permanently protects coastal waters spanning the entire Atlantic and Pacific coasts, as well as the eastern Gulf of Mexico and 44 million acres of the Northern Bering Sea, off the coast of western Alaska.

A ban on installing fossil fuel heating systems in new-build properties begins on the Isle of Man.

President Joe Biden on Monday announced an executive action that will permanently ban future offshore oil and gas development in parts of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans in a way that could be especially difficult for the incoming Trump administration to undo.

The White House announced Monday that President Joe Biden would ban new offshore oil and gas drilling along most of the U.S. coastline.