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Virginians from coastal communities on the Eastern Shore to Virginia Beach are joining lawmakers from the Commonwealth in standing up to the Trump Administration and its plans to open our coast to offshore drilling.
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Today, U.S. Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine and U.S. Representatives Donald McEachin, Gerry Connolly, Don Beyer, and Bobby Scott sent a letter to the Trump Administration requesting that Virginia be exempted from its offshore drilling proposal.
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In a letter to U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke, Gov.-elect Ralph Northam today requested that Virginia be excluded from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s plans to expand offshore drilling off of all U.S. waters.
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U.S. Senator Tim Kaine released the following statement on the Trump Administration’s decision to open nearly all United States waters to new oil and gas drilling, putting Virginia’s coastal communities at risk.
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The Trump administration today released a draft of the proposed 2019-2024 Outer Continental Shelf oil and gas leasing program that would allow annual lease sales off the coast of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia.
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Gov.-elect Ralph Northam released the following statement today following the Trump administration’s announcement it will expand offshore drilling off all U.S. waters, with potential to affect Virginia’s coast.
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National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA) President Randall Luthi issued the following statement on revisions to the Production Safety Systems Rule proposed by the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE).
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Governor McAuliffe released the following statement on the letter he submitted on the National Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program.
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The Trump administration confirmed it is moving to expand offshore drilling by undoing President Obama’s December executive order.
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President Obama once again made a sweeping policy change by executive decree, flying the face of our constitutional system of government.
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