Biden administration bans more than 625 million acres of U.S. coastlines from oil and gas drilling

The Biden administration announced Monday that it is banning future offshore oil and gas drilling across 625 million acres of the outer continental shelf.

The action will shut down future drilling along the East Coast , the eastern Gulf of Mexico, 250 million acres along the West Coast and 44 million acres in the Bering Sea along the Alaskan Coast .

The law that Biden invoked does not give presidents explicit authority to revoke withdrawals approved by a former president.