The Trump administration is ruling out selling offshore oil and gas leases along the US East Coast, after its initial plan for auctioning them drew alarm from Republican strongholds in the Southeast.

The Trump administration could be days away from proposing a five-year drilling plan that would open new waters off the Pacific and eastern Gulf coasts to oil and gas rigs. The Interior Department has ...

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The Interior Department has removed the federal waters off the Atlantic coast from President Donald Trump's upcoming offshore drilling plan after Republicans in the region pressed to keep oil and ...