Texas Republicans are pushing back against a ban on oil and gas leasing along the Atlantic and Pacific coastlines announced by President Joe Biden on Monday. The ban does not impact oil and gas drilling off the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coasts,

An energy industry researcher says, despite both praise and criticism of President Joe Biden’s executive order banning offshore drilling in huge swaths off much of the nation’s coastline, the measure will likely have no near-term impact on oil and gas exploration.

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.