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Published: 12/1/10

Obama Bans New East Coast Offshore Drilling: 3 Possible Reasons

By Steven Hoffer - AOL News

(Dec. 1) -- Don't drill, baby, don't drill. Reversing its pre-BP oil spill disaster position, the Obama administration announced today that it will not engage in offshore drilling on the East Coast of the U.S. and the eastern Gulf of Mexico region, according to The Associated Press. The original policy, announced three weeks before the gulf oil spill, would have permitted authorized drilling from the Delaware coast to waters near central Florida, as well as in northern Alaska. The new policy, however, does maintain the possibility for drilling near Alaska. "Our revised strategy lays out a ...

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Published: 12/1/10

New Drilling Banned in Eastern Gulf, Atlantic Coast

By Laura Parker - AOL News

WASHINGTON (Dec. 1) -- The Obama administration announced today that the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico has prompted it to scuttle plans to open waters off Florida and along the Atlantic coast to offshore oil and gas drilling for at least seven years. The change, detailed by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar in a conference call, reverses key components of a sweeping energy plan President Barack Obama announced last March. "We are adjusting our strategy in areas where there are no active leases," Salazar said. "Our most appropriate course is to focus on areas with existing leases and not ...

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Published: 08/16/10

Support for Drilling Ban Drops in Florida Now That the Oil Spill Is Contained

By Bruce Drake - Politics Daily

Now that the runaway well in the Gulf of Mexico is no longer gushing oil, public opinion in Florida -- including the North Florida/Panhandle region that was most at risk -- has turned against the idea of banning offshore drilling in the state's waters, according to a poll conducted Aug. 6-10 for the St. Petersburg Times and other local news organizations. Gov. Charlie Crist, who is now running as an independent for U.S. Senate, had pushed to put the issue of a ban before voters this November, a move blocked by Republican lawmakers. The new poll shows 49 percent oppose a ban while 41 percent ...

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Published: 07/25/10

Justice Officials Gird for Legal Battles Over Immigration, Health, Drilling

By Andrew Cohen - Politics Daily

A huge week looms for the Justice Department, but then again it's already been a remarkably busy and contentious summer for Attorney General Eric Holder and his legions of government lawyers. From Michigan to Arizona to Florida to California and nearly everywhere else in between, Justice officials have been forced in intemperate political conditions -- heat and humidity, and loads of hot air -- to try to put out brush fires that scorch all along the partisan legal divide, from immigration to health care to terror trials. In the next day or so, for example, the feds will learn whether U.S. ...

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Published: 10/1/08

Offshore Drilling Ban Expires

By Mark Impomeni - Politics Daily

Twenty-seven years after it was first established, he Congressional ban on offshore drilling officially and quietly expired today. The ban was not a prohibition on drilling per se. Rather, it was a ban on appropriating money for the Interior Department to process of new drilling leases. With the beginning of the new fiscal year, that prohibition will end, once Congress passes a budget resolution that restores the funding. After years of opposition to increasing domestic supplies of energy, a full year of fighting House Republicans on the issue, and a summer of defending itself against a vocal ...

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