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NRDC: Obama Administration Expands Offshore Oil Drilling Without Adequate Safeguards

Latest Plan to Expedite Drilling is “A Reckless Gamble We Cannot Afford”

WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–November 8, 2011.  The Obama administration today unveiled its new five-year leasing plan for offshore drilling, which includes a heavy focus on production in the Gulf of Mexico and opens up new lease sales in the Arctic. This comes less than two years after the BP oil disaster and without sufficient improvements to safety or clean-up technology, according to NRDC.

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