Environmental groups applauded President Joe Biden’s decision on Monday to enact a sweeping ban on new offshore oil and gas drilling along most of the U.S. coastline. But the ban had one glaring omission: It didn’t include the western Gulf of Mexico, where the country extracts most of its offshore oil.

President Joe Biden has announced prohibitions on future oil and gas drilling across parts of the Atlantic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, the eastern Gulf of Mexico, and the Northern Bering Sea. This withdrawal of rights will not affect the majority of offshore drilling in the U.

The president will prohibit future oil and gas drilling off the East and West coasts, eastern Gulf of Mexico and remaining portions of Alaska's Northern Bering Sea

Biden invoked the 2010 BP oil spill, but his ban doesn’t include the area of the Gulf where the spill occurred.

The White House announced Monday that President Joe Biden would ban new offshore oil and gas drilling along most of the U.S. coastline.

President Biden announced an executive action affecting offshore drilling prior to the end of his term. Biden has issued a decree

U.S. President Joe Biden will ban new offshore oil and gas development along most U.S. coastlines, a decision President-elect Donald Trump, who has vowed to boost domestic energy production, may find difficult to reverse.

President Biden has taken an action that will effectively ban future offshore drilling in certain areas. Find out how Louisiana may be impacted here.

Included are nearly 250 million acres of water off the West Coast that are prime habitat for seals, sea lions, whales, fish and seabirds, the officials said. Biden has determined the environmental and economic risks and harms that would result from drilling outweigh the potential for fossil fuel development,

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 offshore drilling.

An order by Trump attempting to reverse the ban will likely end up in court and could ultimately be struck down.