Tag: offshore
UK’s anti-corruption champion to visit offshore haven on fact-finding mission
Foreign Office sending Margaret Hodge to British Virgin Islands to investigate slow progress against financial crime The Foreign Office will dispatch the UK’s anti-corruption champion, Margaret Hodge, to the British Virgin Islands (BVIs) to find out why the offshore haven is dragging its feet on proposals designed to fight financial crime. Several of the UK’s…
Biden bans offshore drilling across vast area of US
US President Joe Biden has announced a ban on new offshore oil and gas drilling along most of America’s coastline, weeks before Donald Trump takes office. The ban covers the entire Atlantic coast and eastern Gulf of Mexico, as well as the Pacific coast off California, Oregon and Washington and a section of the Bering…
Biden bans new offshore oil and gas drilling in most federal waters
By The Associated Press WASHINGTON — 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. Biden, whose term expires in two weeks, said he is using authority under the federal…