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Charleston Post and Courier April 3, 2018 Members of South Carolina’s congressional delegation, especially coastal Reps. Mark Sanford and Tom Rice, should oppose legislation that would weaken protections for marine mammals and ease the process for permitting for seismic surveys. Two oil-industry friendly bills by Louisiana lawmakers haven’t garnered as much attention as President Donald […]

The Greenville News March 27, 2018 By Eric Connor The city of Greenville will take more time to consider to what degree it should oppose offshore drilling activities off the state’s coastline. The City Council was poised to pass a resolution Monday night opposing drilling, which would have made Greenville the first city in the […]

Highlights from Timothy Cama’s story (Bids for offshore drilling rise slightly, The Hill) regarding the results of the March 21, 2018, auction of oil drilling rights in the Gulf. “In total, 14,474 tracts were available for bidding. But only 148 tracts had any bids, just over 1 percent.” “Of the 148 tracts sold Wednesday, all but […]

The New Jersey House Congressional delegation has once again taken leadership efforts to oppose offshore drilling for oil in the Atlantic. On March 16, two letters were sent (all the Dems on one and a Republican on the other) to the Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee with oversight of the Department of […]

“We’ve tried to find folks who might be in favor of this, to find out what they think, the small to medium size businesses, and we haven’t been able to find anybody who thinks this is a good idea.”–Mike Switzer’s March 19, 2018, radio interview with Andy Owens, managing editor of SCBizNews, the company that publishes […]

Charleston Post and Courier March 19, 2018 South Carolina apparently meets all the criteria for an exemption from President Donald Trump’s ill-advised offshore oil drilling program. Just consider the recent comments of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke on drilling off the Pacific Coast states. Mr. Zinke expressed doubt that any drilling would occur off the West […]

New York Times March 10, 2018 By ERIC LIPTON PORT FOURCHON, La. — A dozen miles off the coast, on a rusty, aging platform, workers in hard hats and overalls spend their days extracting oil and gas from the ocean floor before retreating at night into tiny weather-beaten steel cubes that act as dorms. The […]