The move is considered mostly symbolic, as it will not impact areas where oil and gas development is currently underway, and mainly covers zones where drillers have no important prospects, including in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

Even if President-elect Donald Trump manages to overturn Biden’s sweeping ban on new offshore drilling — which seems doubtful despite his promises — it likely won’t bring a massive boost to U.S. oil production,

President Joe Biden banned oil and gas drilling along the U.S. coasts, including off New Jersey. Not everyone in the state is celebrating the move.

In the space of an hour, President-elect Donald Trump called for absorbing Canada, declined to rule out using military force to seize the Panama Canal and Greenland, demanded NATO allies spend 5% of GDP on defense and vowed “all hell would break loose” in the Middle East if Hamas doesn’t release Israeli hostages before he takes office.