Analysis: Trump has big plans for offshore oil development; but will it ever happen?
by Keith Schneider, Los Angeles Times
Jan 08, 2018
3 minutes
With characteristic flamboyance, the Trump administration has set in motion a grand scheme to lure energy companies to explore for oil and gas across virtually all of America's outer continental shelf, a deep marine domain encompassing billions of acres of ocean bottom.
Drawing a distinction from the Obama administration's concerns about climate change and restricting offshore fossil energy development, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke cast President Donald Trump's offshore drilling campaign as a study in American strength. "We're embarking on a new path
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