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CNN January 23, 2018 By Gregory Wallace Washington (CNN) Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke defended his surprise decision to exempt Florida waters from the Trump administration’s push for new offshore drilling, saying in an exclusive interview with CNN that the state’s coastline is unique. “The coastal currents are different, the layout of where the geology is,” Zinke […]

Atlanta Business Chronicle January 19, 2018 By Dave Williams Up and down the eastern seaboard, political leaders were quick to criticize the Trump administration this month when the Interior Department announced a plan to open nearly all U.S. coastal waters to offshore drilling. The response in Georgia, however, has been more muted. While expressing some […]

Charleston Post and Courier January 21, 2018 By Bo Petersen The two highest profile congressional champions of drilling for oil off of South Carolina collectively have taken in hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign money from the industry in the past few years. But the industry has also spread its contributions around, and some […]

  Good morning, Chairman Gosar, Ranking Member Lowenthal, and honorable committee members. My name is Tom Davis, and I am a Republican state senator from Beaufort, South Carolina. I greatly appreciate the opportunity to testify before you today about the importance of protecting the Atlantic Coast from offshore drilling and seismic airgun blasting. My testimony […]

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution January 12, 2018 By Greg Bluestein and Tamar Hallerman Gov. Nathan Deal raised concerns about the Trump administration’s decision to allow new offshore oil and gas drilling in coastal Georgia and much of the rest of the nation’s coastal waters, but it’s unclear whether the state will seek an exemption from the […]

Charleston Post and Courier January 19, 2018 By Bo Petersen No newborn right whales have been spotted so far off South Carolina or the rest of the Southeast coast, alarming researchers who already fear the species might be about to go extinct. At the height of the winter calving season, no adults have been seen […]

Reuters January 16, 2018 By Valerie Volcovici, Richard Valdmanis (Reuters) – The Trump administration’s decision last week to exempt Florida from its national offshore drilling plan was based in part on the state’s argument that a spill would cripple its crucial tourism industry. But several other states opposed to oil and gas drilling off their […]

Charleston Post and Courier January 18, 2018 By Seanna Adcox COLUMBIA — South Carolina can’t afford the potential risks of offshore drilling for oil and gas, Gov. Henry McMaster wrote in a letter to the Trump administration that seeks an exemption like one already given to Florida. “Simply put: our coastline is not an industrial working […]