President Barack Obama has declared much of U.S. waters in the Arctic Ocean and some areas in the Atlantic Ocean permanently unavailable to oil and gas drilling. The Obama administration announced the action as the government of Canada took similar measures. Canada is placing a temporary ban on new oil and gas leasing in parts of the Arctic Ocean that it controls. Obama is using part of a 1953 law to ban leases for oil and gas drilling. Offshore drilling involves recovering oil or gas below the bottom of the sea. The law the administration is using says, "the president of the United States may, from time to time, withdraw from disposition any of the unleased lands of the outer Continental Shelf." The Continental Shelf is an area near land where the ocean is not very deep. Environmental groups hope the move will make it difficult for future presidents to change the ban.
Title: Obama Bans Future Oil Leases in Much of Arctic and Atlantic
Content: <div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1591/oil_lease_ban.m4a' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Obama Bans Future Oil Leases in Much of Arctic and Atlantic' data-article-id='2108'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='15938'>President Barack Obama has declared much of U.S. waters in the Arctic Ocean and some areas in the Atlantic Ocean permanently unavailable to oil and gas drilling.</span> <span data-start-time='15938' data-end-time='24333'>The Obama administration announced the action as the government of Canada took similar measures.</span> <span data-start-time='24333' data-end-time='34833'>Canada is placing a temporary ban on new oil and gas leasing in parts of the Arctic Ocean that it controls.</span> <span data-start-time='34833' data-end-time='43542'>Obama is using part of a 1953 law to ban leases for oil and gas drilling.</span> <span data-start-time='43542' data-end-time='51375'>Offshore drilling involves recovering oil or gas below the bottom of the sea.</span> <span data-start-time='51375' data-end-time='55063'>The law the administration is using says, </span> <span data-start-time='55063' data-end-time='66688'>"the president of the United States may, from time to time, withdraw from disposition any of the unleased lands of the outer Continental Shelf."</span> <span data-start-time='66688' data-end-time='74354'>The Continental Shelf is an area near land where the ocean is not very deep.</span> <span data-start-time='74354' data-end-time='82396'>Environmental groups hope the move will make it difficult for future presidents to change the ban.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img src='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1591/oil_lease_ban.jpg'/></div></div><div id='question-content' style='display:none;'><div class='vocabulary_question question-container' data-question-id=7833 data-hint-location='55063' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1591/what_does_disposition_mean.m4a'>What does disposition mean?</div><div 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