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On Eve of Fossil Fuel Lease Moratorium, Biden Urged to Permanently Protect US Coast From Offshore Drilling
As President Joe Biden prepares to announce a moratorium on new federal oil and gas leasing, the marine conservartion organization Oceana on Tuesday called on the president ot permanently protect the nation's coasts from offshore drilling. (Photo: Maersk Drilling/Flickr/cc)
Huge Victory for Ocean Defenders as Seismic Blasting Halted in Atlantic
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
A North Atlantic right whale and calf seen on March 22, 2019.
"Seismic blasting harms whales in the search for offshore oil that we should leave in the ground."
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10 Years After BP's Deepwater Horizon Offshore Catastrophe—Worst Spill in History—and Nothing Learned, Says New Report
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"If anything, another disaster is more likely today as the oil industry drills...
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House GOP Approve Bill to Eviscerate Nation's Marine Ecosystems, Fisheries
Jon Queally, staff writer
If the bill becomes law, it "would reverse decades of bipartisan progress...
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