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Obama blocks Arctic, Atlantic exploration

OUTGOING US President Barack Obama has used his powers and a 1950s-era law to permanently block offshore drilling rights in much of the US Arctic and parts of the Atlantic, in a move designed to be “Trump proof”.

Haydn Black

Barack Obama.

Obama, who has less than a month left in office, used a provision in the 1953 Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act that has previously been used sparingly to permanently preserve coral reefs, walrus feeding...

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