Our Ocean Legacy
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| The U.S. House of Representatives voted to open Florida and the nation’s coasts to offshore oil and gas drilling. The House passed the Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act (H.R.4761), which ends the 25 year bipartisan moratorium that has been the bedrock of Florida’s protections against offshore drilling. | |
| Today, the House of Representatives rejected pro-drilling amendments to the FY08 Interior-Environment Spending Bill. These amendments would have lifted the current moratorium against new offshore drilling leases in Florida waters. | |
| Language in the FY07 Department of Interior Appropriations Bill would have eliminated Florida’s 25 year congressional moratorium against new offshore drilling leases. | |
| Today, in a 37 to 25 vote, the U.S. House Appropriations Committee voted to eviscerate the bipartisan, bicoastal Congressional moratorium on new offshore drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) that has protected our fragile coast for 22 years. | |
| Federal officials arrived in Tallahassee today for a meeting to solicit public input on plans for new offshore oil and gas drilling off Florida’s coast, and met with stiff opposition from state and federal legislators, business and environmental leaders, as well as citizens who came from as far away as Tampa and Pensacola. | |
| Oil lobby bears down on lame-duck Congress as Democrats plot a different energy course. | |
