From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_offshore_drilling_debate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_offshore_drillin... : > In 2018, a new fe

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_offshore_drilling_debate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_offshore_drillin... : > In 2018, a new federal initiative to expand offshore drilling suddenly excluded Florida, but although this would be favored by Floridians, concerns remained about the basis for that apparently arbitrary exception being merely politically motivated and tentative. No scientific, military, or economic basis for the decision was given, provoking continuing public concern in Florida.[11] Why not Florida? > In 2023, President Biden signed a Memorandum of March 13, 2023 prohibiting oil and gas leasing in certain arctic areas of the Outer Continental Shelf (Withdrawal of Certain Areas off the United States Arctic Coast of the Outer Continental Shelf from Oil or Gas Leasing). However, in January 2025