The ban on future oil and natural gas leasing would apply to the entire U.S. East Coast and other federal waters.

President Biden on Monday banned future oil and natural gas drilling and leasing off of Florida's coasts. His executive actions add 334 million acres of the Atlantic coast from Canada to the southern tip of Florida and the east coast of the Gulf of Mexico for a total of over 625 million acres of protected waters surrounding the United States.

President Joe Biden is moving to ban new offshore oil and gas drilling in most U.S. coastal waters, a last-minute effort to block possible action by the incoming Trump administration to expand offshor