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  2. United States offshore drilling debate - Wikipedia

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    The United States offshore drilling debate is an ongoing debate in the United States about whether, the extent to which, in which areas, and under what conditions, further offshore drilling should be allowed in U.S.-administered waters. Oil drilling platform about two miles (3 km) off the coast of California, near Santa Barbara.

  3. House passes two bills to ban new offshore drilling - AOL

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    The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday passed two bills banning new offshore oil and gas drilling off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and Florida and was set to vote on a third banning ...

  4. Offshore oil and gas in the United States - Wikipedia

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    A number of states, including California and Florida, have banned leasing of state waters for oil and gas drilling. In 2009 a bill that would have partially rescinded a ban on oil and gas leasing of Florida state waters failed in the Florida statehouse (see Offshore oil and gas in Florida).

  5. Offshore drilling on the Atlantic coast of the United States

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    Offshore drilling for oil and gas on the Atlantic coast of the United States took place from 1947 to the early 1980s. Oil companies drilled five wells in Atlantic Florida state waters and 51 exploratory wells on federal leases on the outer continental shelf of the Atlantic coast. None of the wells were completed as producing wells.

  6. Trump administration bars oil drilling off Florida after ...

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  7. Court of Appeals Rules Against Obama Offshore Ban

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    The Obama administration lost its second legal bid to ban offshore deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico for six months. An appellate court supported the ruling of Judge Martin L.C. Feldman of ...

  8. John Rutherford (Florida politician) - Wikipedia

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    In 2019, he introduced bipartisan legislation (cosponsored by eight Florida Democrats and nine Florida Republicans) to extend a moratorium on oil and gas drilling in federal waters off Florida's Gulf Coast until 2029, and to create a similar moratorium on offshore drilling in federal waters off Florida's South Atlantic coast and in the Straits ...

  9. Second Oil Rig Explosion Renews Debate on Offshore Drilling - AOL

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    The Mariner Energy Resources (ME) oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico Thursday ripped open the debate again over whether a six-month moratorium on deepwater oil drilling should be extended and ...