Sentences with phrase «opposing offshore drilling»

The Trump offshore drilling plan would let oil suppliers drill in protected areas of the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans — places where governors, attorneys general and lawmakers along the East and West Coasts oppose offshore drilling.

Drilling for oil in Long Island Sound and nearby Atlantic Ocean waterways would be catastrophic for environmental and economic reasons, dozens of speakers told federal officials at a hearing organized by Rep. Lee Zeldin, who opposes offshore drilling.

Other governors who oppose offshore drilling on their coasts include the leaders of New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, California, Oregon, and Washington.

The administration still opposes offshore drilling on both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.

People I spoke to said that many community members oppose offshore drilling because they know it threatens their dependence on bowhead whales and seals.

For the first time in recent memory, more Americans now oppose offshore drilling than support it, a recent CBS poll finds.

Not exact matches

The results are much more divided when it comes to support for nonrenewable energy sources like offshore drilling (52 % oppose while 45 % are in favor of expansion in this area) and coal mining (57 % are opposed and 41 % are in favor of expansion).

The Iñupiat of the Alaska's Arctic oppose Shell's offshore drilling now and have sued to stop them.

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For example, 49 % of this group favors more offshore drilling for oil and natural gas, while 50 % oppose it.

Currently, a majority of Democrats (56 %) oppose expanding offshore drilling.

Currently, 51 % of Americans favor allowing more offshore oil and gas drilling in U.S. waters while 41 % are opposed.

The Surfrider Foundation is strongly opposed to the expansion of offshore drilling off the Atlantic and Arctic oceans.

«The massive turnout for the Hands Across the Sand today shows that people oppose the risky practice of offshore drilling and understand that we need to seek real solutions to our energy crisis including increased efficiency, conservation and renewable alternatives,» said Pete Stauffer, Surfrider Foundation's Ocean Program Manager.

She has also aggressively opposed increased offshore drilling and subsidies for oil companies, instead supporting additional research to spur investment in green jobs.

In the institute's survey this month of 2,502 Californians, 59 percent opposed new offshore drilling; the proportion supporting more drilling dropped to 36 percent, down 15 percentage points.

For his part, though Barack Obama has indicated in speeches that, as part of compromise legislation, he wouldn't be entirely opposed to offshore oil drilling, he does acknowledge the very real limitations of doing so.

Clinton's main opponents in the Democratic primaries, Sanders and former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, have staked out ample ground to her left on environmental issues by opposing Keystone, Arctic drilling and offshore drilling in general.

Founded by Surfrider member Dave Rauschkolb in 2009, the event brings people together to oppose new offshore drilling and other fossil fuel development and promote a clean energy future.

In the same Princeton speech that he praised the possibilities of offshore wind, Zinke acknowledged that offshore fossil - fuel drilling was opposed by governors in every East Coast and West Coast state except Maine and Georgia.