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  • Offshore Drilling: The Coast is Clear

    Robert L. Bradley Jr., Special to the Opbserver|Jan 31, 2019

    In the coming months, the Department of the Interior will likely issue a new draft of his five-year plan to expand energy drilling in America's outer continental shelf (OCS), the submerged federal land off America's coasts. Unsurprisingly, the plan has environmentalists up in arms. As soon as former Sec. Zinke unveiled it back in January, a green coalition including the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Sierra Club said the plan would cause "severe and unacceptable [environmental] harm." Such concerns are unfounded. Expanding offshore d...