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The Beaufort Gazette/ Hilton Head Island Packet April 29, 2017 By Stephen Fastenau Here they go again. Months after local elected officials, businessmen and environmentalists won victories over the prospect of offshore drilling, their campaign has been revived. President Donald Trump signed an order Friday that could reverse previous administration directives and reopen the Atlantic […]

South Strand News April 28, 2017 President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday, April 28, that reverses current law and calls for a review of locations to expand offshore oil and gas drilling, likely targeting four Atlantic Ocean states, including South Carolina. A news conference with Horry and Georgetown elected officials will be held […]

Charleston Post and Courier April 28, 2017 By Bo Petersen South Carolina coastal mayors Friday decried the Trump administration order that could re-open the offshore to oil and natural gas exploration and drilling. At the Charleston Maritime Center, three local coastal mayors and a Charleston councilman spoke at a press event held by local anti-drilling […]

Moultrie News (SC) April 28, 2017 By Jake Lucas President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday asking Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke to reconsider opening up the waters off the coast of South Carolina and other areas to offshore oil and gas drilling. The order also directs the interior secretary to streamline applications […]

The Greenville News April 21, 2017 ​Even amid a strong tide of opposition among coastal Carolinians, one of the strongest proponents of offshore energy exploration sees abundant economic opportunity for South Carolina and the region if President Donald Trump loosens restrictions on energy development off the Atlantic coast. U.S. Rep. Jeff Duncan, R-S.C., is his […]

The Greenville News April 21, 2017 ​The search for oil and gas in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of North and South Carolina could be months, rather than years, away. That would put the first wells in the Atlantic in as little as three years, and major oil drilling infrastructure a decade or so […]

The Greenville News April 21, 2017 Mount Pleasant, South Carolina – On this dock, where captains and first mates are freshening their boats with coats of white paint and rigging up new shrimp trawling gear to take to springtime Atlantic waters, the debate over drilling for oil in East Coast waters divides colleagues and, occasionally, families. Much […]

Charleston Post and Courier April 12, 2017 Last year the concerted efforts of local governments, small businesses and grass-roots organizations throughout the Lowcountry convinced the federal government to remove waters off our shores from plans for oil and gas exploration and production. Now the Trump administration is planning to reverse that decision and allow oil […]

Morning Consult April 14, 2017 Frank Knapp, OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR On April 6 Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke told the National Ocean Industries Association that an executive order was forthcoming that would start the process of rewriting the five-year plan for the Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program. The next day an op-ed in Morning Consult by […]