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  • Biden ban on offshore drilling in vast areas was illegal, court rules

    10/03/2025 11:33:33 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 5 replies
    Reuters.com ^ | October 3, 202511:28 AM CDT | Reuters
    Oct 3 (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Joe Biden exceeded his authority by withdrawing large areas along U.S. coastlines from future offshore oil and gas development, a federal judge in Louisiana ruled on Thursday.U.S. District Judge James Cain in Lake Charles, Louisiana, sided with Republican states and oil and gas industry groups that sued to block Biden's move to protect all federal waters off the East and West coasts, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and portions of the northern Bering Sea in Alaska.Biden, on one of his final days in office, used his authority under the 70-year-old Outer Continental Shelf...