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US Green Agenda Delivered Blow as Ban on Drilling off Florida Overturned

Oil rigs extracting petroleum in the Los Angeles area of Culver City, California. The vote would put oil and gas rigs within 10 miles of the Florida panhandle, and within 45 miles of Tampa. (AFP/Getty Images/File/David McNew) A Senate committee delivered a rebuff to Barack Obama's clean energy agenda yesterday by voting to overturn a ban on oil and gas drilling off the Florida coast.

The 13-10 vote in the Senate's energy and natural resources committee to lift the drilling ban off Florida's coast runs counter to the push by the White House and Democrats in Congres

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