In recent weeks, outgoing President Joe Biden and incoming President Donald Trump each issued a Presidential Memorandum to withdraw extensive areas of the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) for future ...

Oil and gas production on the Outer Continental Shelf generated $7 billion in federal revenue in the 2024 fiscal year.

The draft program proposes up to 34 potential offshore lease sales across 21 of 27 existing outer continental shelf planning ...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) of Vietnam filed a claim to the UN’s Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS) to extend the limits of its underwater continental shelf in the ...

This sale is the second of thirty Gulf of America oil and gas lease sales required by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. “Lease ...

CIRES researchers help map one million square kilometers of new U.S. seafloor in historic project The United States has established sovereign rights over an additional one million square kilometers of ...

On April 16, the Supreme Court will hear argument in a case that raises familiar questions of federalism and statutory interpretation as applied in an unusual setting, to a platform anchored to the ...

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The shape of the continental shelf off the southern Mexican coast played a role in the formation of long-lasting tsunami edge waves that appeared after last September's magnitude 8.2 earthquake. The ...

The shape of the continental shelf off the southern Mexican coast played a role in the formation of long-lasting tsunami edge waves that appeared after last September's magnitude 8.2 earthquake, ...