Coast of the Bering Sea Nome, Alaska, by Dan Perez on Creative Commons
President Joe Biden announced Jan. 6, that he will ban new offshore oil and gas drilling along most of the U.S. coastline. This sets the outgoing president’s climate legacy in stark contrast to President-elect Donald Trump’s climate denialism.
Biden’s order will protect 625 million acres of ocean along the country’s Atlantic and Pacific coasts, the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska’s Bering Sea from the “environmental and economic risks and harms” of offshore energy extraction. Using an obscure provision of the 1953 Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, Biden has permanently withdrawn undisturbed land from being leased to oil and gas companies. This serves as an enormous win for environmental groups as well as protecting coastal and indigenous communities from oil spills and other environmental impacts of offshore drilling
A shining moment! This week, Long Beach Ronald McDonald House celebrated Carolyn Caldwell at…
LOS ANGELES – The FBI’s Los Angeles field office made numerous arrests over the…
Gov. Gavin Newsom Oct. 22, 28 and 31 respectively, announced the following appointments: Salvador…
The next comprehensive landslide update is scheduled for the November 4 city council meeting.
For one night each autumn between 2004 and 2013, four square blocks of Long Beach’s…
Through this collaborative effort, the City and CISAAP work together to provide educational programs, prevention…