In recent weeks, outgoing President Joe Biden and incoming President Donald Trump each issued a Presidential Memorandum to withdraw extensive areas of the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) for future ...

President Trump directed the Treasury Department to freeze new offshore wind leases on the outer continental shelf Monday evening as one of a flurry of executive orders he signed within hours of ...

Mario Loyola is a senior research fellow for environmental policy and regulation at The Heritage Foundation. This week President Joe Biden invoked the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to prohibit ...

Trump’s order, signed Monday, halted federal leases for offshore wind development on the outer continental shelf — a location far enough from shore that wind speeds are consistently higher ...

Jan 20 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump issued an executive action suspending offshore wind leasing from all areas of the outer continental shelf pending an environmental and economic review ...

The new outer limit means Argentina incorporates an additional 1.7 million sq km of continental shelf to its current 4.8 million sq km, extending from the base line to the 200 miles maritime limit.

The order withdraws the entire shelf for new or renewed offshore wind leasing, but does not affect either existing leases or leases in the continental shelf for oil and gas development. It also ...

President Trump directed the Treasury Department to freeze new offshore wind leases on the outer continental shelf Monday evening as one of a flurry of executive orders he signed within hours of ...