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West coast drilling halted until 2022

Friday, December 2, 2016 by

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President Barack Obama released a plan for offshore oil drilling in federal waters that bans any new drilling off the coasts of California, Oregon or Washington until after 2022, according to the Monterey Herald.

The recent decision outlines which offshore areas will be open for leasing by oil companies from 2017 to 2022. It also blocked new oil drilling in federal waters off the Atlantic coast and in the hotly contested Arctic Ocean north of Alaska in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas. However, it will allow oil companies to bid for 10 lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico and one off the Alaska coast at Cook Inlet, southwest of Anchorage.

For President-elect Donal Trump things just got a little more difficult as he promised to expand offshore oil and gas drilling.

Learn more: Monterey Herald > Obama blocks new oil drilling on Pacific coast

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