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January 27, 2015

Obama to Open Atlantic Coast to Offshore Oil Drilling 
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In other environmental news, the Obama administration is expected to
propose today to open up coastal waters from Virginia to Georgia for new
offshore oil and gas drilling. This comes just a day after he announced
a plan to protect some of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from
drilling. The Natural Resources Defense Council criticized allowing
offshore drilling in the Atlantic. Bob Deans of NRDC said: "It would
ignore the lessons of the disastrous BP blowout, the need to protect
future generations from the dangers of climate change and the promise of
a clean-energy future."

 

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