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White House: No Drilling In East Coast Waters

by Greg Allen, NPR
December 1, 2010

The Obama administration reversed course Wednesday on a sensitive environmental and economic issue -- offshore drilling. The Interior Department says that for at least the next seven years, it will not allow any offshore oil and gas drilling off the East Coast in the Atlantic, or in the Gulf of Mexico near Florida. And it will proceed cautiously in granting any new offshore leases in Alaska.

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  • All Things Considered, December 1, 2010
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