Obama Issues Permanent Arctic Drilling Ban

President Obama will permanently ban offshore drilling in most of the U.S.-controlled Arctic as well as off much of the Atlantic [f500link ignore=true]Seaboard[/f500link], the White House announced Thursday.

The move—billed as an effort to conserve important marine species and protect against oil spills—represents a last-ditch measure by Obama to strengthen his environmental legacy in advance of President-elect Donald Trump taking office in January.