Lawmakers Again Seek to Avert Drilling Off Florida's Gas-Rich Gulf Coast

摘要

The decades-long debate over whether to allow gas and oil drilling offFlorida is heating up again.A bipartisan group of Sunshine State lawmakers is pushing legislation that would extend a ban on leasing in unexplored portions of the gas-rich eastern Gulf of Mexico off the state's western coastline.The bill,introduced in the House of Representatives,largely serves as a statement against the US Interior Department's yet-to-be-released oil and gas leasing schedule.