Sentences with phrase «draft offshore leasing»

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Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said the draft proposal for offshore leasing between 2019 and 2024 would offer about 90 percent of the U.S. outer continental shelf, the largest lease sale ever.

The draft five - year plan also proposes the largest number of offshore oil and gas lease sales in U.S. history.

In its draft leasing plan that will set the boundaries for oil development in federal waters from 2017 to 2022, the Obama Administration proposed allowing offshore drilling along the Atlantic Coast between Virginia and Georgia.

Also newsworthy is the Trump Administration's capricious process for public participation and comment on the release of a draft 5 - year plan for outer continental shelf offshore drilling in U.S. federal waters, including Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's back - and - forth exemption of Florida and the inclusion of Arctic leases.

The federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is scheduled to hold a public hearing today in Wilmington, N.C., on its draft five - year offshore oil and natural gas leasing program.

The need for a robust offshore leasing plan remains critically important — and the plan should retain the single Atlantic lease sale that was included in BOEM's draft.