This review is likely to result in a relaxation of the strict protections the previous administration put on offshore oil drilling in the Atlantic and in the Arctic.
Coastal business leaders oppose offshore drilling in the Atlantic because it's a job killer, not a job creator.
Adding to his list of accomplishments on the eve of his 100th day as president, Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday undoing Barack Obama's restrictions on drilling in federally held waters along the eastern seaboard and the Arctic.
"When Deepwater Horizon exploded, Floridians saw firsthand the catastrophic consequences of offshore drilling", U.S. Rep. Charlie Crist, a Florida Democrat, said in a statement.
Those include areas along the Florida coast and southeast U.S. coast where oil and gas drilling are now banned, under a moratorium that Democratic U.S. Sen.
Action could be years away, however. The order is also part of President Trump's promise to "unleash" the nation's energy reserves to reduce our reliance on foreign oil and to create jobs, despite the concerns by many over the harm that offshore drilling would cause to the environment and marine life.
A leading voice of opposition to offshore drilling near New Jersey's coastline, U.S. Representative Frank A. LoBiondo (NJ-02) on April 28, 2017 reaffirmed his strong opposition to opening new parts of the Atlantic Ocean, including off the coast of Cape May County, for oil and natural gas drilling. "Allowing drilling anywhere on the east or west coasts would threaten key economic drivers for these states such as fishing and tourism with the risk of an oil spill", they wrote.
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President Trump's order charges the Interior Department to work with the Commerce Department to "streamline a permitting approach for privately funded seismic data research and collection", Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said Thursday; that data helps the department assess the level of natural resources under the sea. Petersburg. "Spills don't just devastate ecosystems".
Oil companies are not prepared to clean oil out of remote, icy waters. "I urge the Trump administration to reverse course and put the well-being of our coastal communities above oil industry profits".
Some argue that Trump's new executive order is hasty and uncalled for, defying market trends and realities. Mel Martinez, a Republican, got a deal passed to ban drilling off Florida's Gulf coast through 2022.
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"I never expected we'd be revisiting the five-year plan six months later", said U.S. Sen.
The American Petroleum Institute welcomed the measure and singled out the gulf. He said the federal government has closed off 94 percent of these offshore areas, preventing potential energy production.
The order not only calls for a new five-year drilling plan, but it also reverses Obama's move to place certain Arctic waters permanently off-limits. With a whopping 94 percent of our outer continental shelf now locked away from oil and gas development, a thorough review of the regulatory framework governing our offshore energy resources is warranted and logical.
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