Unfortunately, this plan calls for
expanding offshore oil drilling to over 90 percent of our coastal waters!
A new Quinnipiac poll shows
expanded offshore oil drilling and Arizona's strict new immigration law garnering majority support among the American public.
Green leaders worry that if Bush administration plans to
expand offshore oil drilling are not overturned by President Obama, oil spills in U.S. waters could remain a sad fact of life.
Friends of the Earth — US is proud to stand with a broad coalition in opposition to the draft 5 - year plan to
expand offshore oil drilling in US federal waters.
His opponent, Congressman Bilbray has jumped on the «drill, baby drill» bandwagon, voting to lower offshore drilling safety standards to levels that led to the BP Gulf oil spill and failing to vote against a bill that
expanded offshore oil drilling to new coastal areas, including Southern California.
The Congressman has protected sea otters, turtles and sharks, and has fought to prevent
expanded offshore oil drilling.
The Natural Resources Defense Council applauded it — with reservations about
the expanded offshore oil drilling and the lack of minimum performance standards for the largest carbon polluters.
«Whether it's fighting
expanded offshore oil drilling, addressing toxic red tides or keeping environmental conservation front and center in the RESTORE Act, he's a true champion.»
He has worked to prevent
expanded offshore oil drilling, and to ensure that the EPA has the ability to regulate greenhouse gases and water pollution.
Not exact matches
Expanding offshore drilling April 28 In the same executive order, Trump ordered the Department of the Interior to create a new five - year schedule for leasing blocks of the U.S. outer continental shelf for
oil and gas exploration.
He has scheduled some high prolife events focusing on national issues in recent days, including an event with Al Gore to ask that New York be excluded from the Trump administration's
expanded offshore oil and gas
drilling program.
The Governor's action to protect New York's waters from
oil and gas exploration was prompted by the Trump administration's plan to vastly
expand offshore drilling in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
Former Vice President Al Gore and Gov. Andrew Cuomo ask that New York be excluded from the Trump administration's
expanded offshore oil and gas
drilling program.
It is appalling that while the federal government is pushing
offshore oil drilling and mountaintop - removal coal mining, proposing to strip - mine shale
oil and tar sands and to dramatically
expand the production of high - level nuclear waste, they have declared a two - year moratorium on new solar electric power plants on public lands — which have some of the best solar energy resources in the world — for «environmental reasons».
He's also implying that he'll stick with his (ill - timed) support for
expanded offshore drilling — although obviously with an aggressive clampdown on the
oil industry and the agencies that, in theory at least, were supposed to protect workers and the environment.
Given that President Obama and other members of his administration have continued to express support for
offshore drilling, provided that additional safeguards are put in place to prevent a repeat of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, once the gushing
oil is stopped there remains a possibility of
expanding offshore drilling once again.
However, the Trump administration is now planning to
expand offshore drilling, putting the Atlantic, Pacific, Gulf of Mexico, and Arctic at risk of new
oil rigs.
Supply, cost, environmental consequences - these are among the central features of debate over energy policy in the U.S. Those who want to open up more areas to
drilling - on land and
offshore - and
expand the use of fracking to extract natural gas from deep underground argue that we must reduce our dependence on foreign
oil.
The national survey by Pew Research Center, conducted March 27 - April 9 among 2,541 adults, finds pockets of partisan agreement over
expanding solar and wind power, though wide political divides remain over increasing fossil fuels through such methods as coal mining, hydraulic fracturing and
offshore drilling for
oil and natural gas, a pattern consistent with a 2016 Pew Research Center survey.
The Governor's action to protect New York's waters from
oil and gas exploration was prompted by the Trump administration's plan to vastly
expand offshore drilling in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
It
expanded extraction using hydrofracturing in tar sands to increase activity in
offshore oil drilling all over the world, thereby maximizing its rate of fossil fuel extraction and processing.
His broad - based strategy begat the trans - Alaska pipeline (to get North Slope
oil to Lower 48 markets),
expanded onshore and
offshore oil drilling, an all - of - the - above strategy for electric power generation that brought lignite mining and natural gas into prominence, and a host of conservation measures, including 55 - mph speed limits.
He supports
offshore oil drilling as a way of
expanding fossil fuel production.
With President - elect Donald Trump pledging to
expand offshore drilling, a coalition of environmental groups called on President Obama to permanently protect federal waters from
expanded oil leasing.
He's held Big
Oil and other polluters accountable for their actions, and fought against
expanded offshore drilling in the Arctic, by showing that the industry is not technologically prepared to do so.
The Republican platform slated for approval at the party's convention includes
expanded offshore oil - and - gas development, opening Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to
drilling rigs and thwarting Environmental Protection Agency climate change regulations.
Interior's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) 2018 budget increases spending for
expanding offshore oil and gas drilling by more than $ 10 million through the national Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Progr
oil and gas
drilling by more than $ 10 million through the national Outer Continental Shelf
Oil and Gas Leasing Progr
Oil and Gas Leasing Program.
The
oil spill sealed the fate of the Kerry - Lieberman bill, making any push to
expand offshore drilling untenable in the short term.
In private, big energy firms were offered sweetheart deals to acquiesce to the climate bill, including
expanded offshore drilling for
oil giants like BP and taxpayer subsidies for coal and nuclear interests that outstripped those for clean energy.