COAST Anti-Drilling Act of 2025
Summary
What This Bill Does
The COAST Anti-Drilling Act amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to bar the Secretary from issuing leases or other authorizations for exploration, development, or production of oil, natural gas, or other minerals in four planning areas identified in the 2024-2029 National Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Proposed Final Program: North Atlantic, Mid-Atlantic, South Atlantic, and Straits of Florida. It is a broad Atlantic and Florida offshore extraction ban that protects coastal economies and marine resources while removing future federal leasing opportunities for offshore energy companies in those planning areas.
Who Benefits and How
Atlantic coastal communities benefit because the bill reduces risk from new offshore oil, gas, or mineral development near regional shorelines. Commercial fishing businesses benefit if fewer offshore extraction authorizations lower spill and infrastructure conflict risk. Coastal tourism businesses benefit from reduced exposure to new offshore drilling activity in beach and marine recreation economies. State coastal regulators benefit from a statutory leasing prohibition for the named planning areas.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Offshore oil and gas companies lose access to leases and authorizations in the North Atlantic, Mid-Atlantic, South Atlantic, and Straits of Florida planning areas. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management must treat the covered areas as unavailable for extraction leasing or authorization. Federal royalty beneficiaries lose potential revenue from future offshore production in those areas. Energy-development advocates must shift proposals outside the covered Atlantic and Florida planning areas.
Key Provisions
- Prohibits leases and authorizations for oil, natural gas, and other mineral exploration in four OCS planning areas.
- Blocks development and production authorizations in the North Atlantic, Mid-Atlantic, South Atlantic, and Straits of Florida areas.
- Uses the 2024-2029 BOEM proposed final leasing program to identify the covered areas.
- Restricts Interior Department offshore leasing authority notwithstanding other law.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Prohibits Interior from issuing leases or authorizations for oil, gas, or mineral exploration, development, or production in the North Atlantic, Mid-Atlantic, South Atlantic, and Straits of Florida outer Continental Shelf planning areas.
Key Policy Areas
Energy, Environment, Public Lands
Primary Purpose
Prohibits Interior from issuing leases or authorizations for oil, gas, or mineral exploration, development, or production in the North Atlantic, Mid-Atlantic, South Atlantic, and Straits of Florida outer Continental Shelf planning areas.
Policy Domains
Resolution provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Atlantic coastal communities
- Commercial fishing businesses
- Coastal tourism businesses
- State coastal regulators
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Offshore oil and gas companies
- Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
- Federal royalty beneficiaries
- Energy-development advocates
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMr. Pallone (for himself, Mr. Huffman, Ms. Tokuda, Mr. Menendez, …
Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
Introduced in House
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
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