Four days before President Joe Biden is set to leave office, his administration recommended that about 3 million more acres in Alaska’s western Arctic be protected from development and issued a guideline,

President Joe Biden's administration on Thursday moved to put more of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge off limits to oil and gas development, in a last-minute bid to complicate President-elect Donald Trump's efforts to boost drilling in the area.

The Biden administration advanced a plan to limit oil drilling and infrastructure across more of Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve, a bid to lock in land protections and conservation requirements days before President-elect Donald Trump takes office.

The entire Northern Bering Sea is now off-limits to oil and gas leasing, under a presidential directive announced on Monday. President Joe Biden invoked his authority under a federal law to withdraw about 44 million acres of the Northern Bering Sea and other federal offshore areas from the Department of the Interior’s oil and gas

The president will prohibit future oil and gas drilling off the East and West coasts, eastern Gulf of Mexico and remaining portions of Alaska's Northern Bering Sea

In response, Alaska’s new U.S. representative, Nick Begich III, called Biden a “son of a bitch” on social media and incorrectly suggested the action applied to Cook Inlet.

The president has signed several executive orders and acts into law during his lame duck period that make Trump's agenda harder to implement immediately.

Biden said he is using authority under the federal Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to protect offshore areas along the East and West coasts, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and portions of Alaska's North

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the Eastern Gulf of Mexico and Alaska's North Bering Sea. President Joe Biden signed the Social Security Fairness Act into law Sunday, marking what is expected to be one of the last major pieces ...