Newsom Calls Trump Offshore Oil Drilling Plan ‘Dead on Arrival’

California Governor Gavin Newsom declared a planned Trump administration proposal to sell new oil drilling rights off the US West Coast “dead on arrival.”

The draft proposal prepared by administration officials, first reported by Bloomberg in October, sets the stage for government auctions of oil and gas leases in US Pacific waters. The administration also is set to outline potential sales of drilling rights in waters near Alaska and in the Gulf of Mexico, which was renamed the Gulf of America by President Donald Trump.

However, Trump administration officials have now ruled out new offshore oil leasing along the ...