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 ...

Valentin A. Koshkin, Delimitation of the Continental Shelf in the Central Arctic Ocean, Arctic Review on Law and Politics, Vol. 13 (2022), pp. 393-406 ...

Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 56, No. 2 (2011), pp. 611-626 (16 pages) Chlorophyll concentration, phytoplankton biomass, and total and nitrate-fueled primary productivity increase toward the coast ...

The U.S. ECS Project identified more than 380,000 square miles of continental shelf that qualifies as ECS—an area more than twice the size of California. The U.S. ECS is located in seven ...

Norway is moving forward with plans to mine its continental shelf to procure minerals critical for renewable energy technologies. However, some scientists, members of civil society and even ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP)- Virginia's governor says he doesn't want his state included in a new review of an oil and gas leasing program on the outer continental shelf. Democrat Terry McAuliffe on ...

But if that happens, the U.S. can still proceed with its own domestic rules allowing use of the extended shelf, having lost nothing through a good-faith effort at multilateral engagement.