Proposals to Expand Drilling Off Florida, US East Coast Resisted

摘要

Debate about what measures to include in a broad US energy policy package has heated up, with both the Obama administration and the top Democrat on the Senate energy committee pushing back against recent proposals to expand offshore oil and gas drilling. A group of mostly Republican senators introduced three separate bills last week that would increase the number of federal lease sales held by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) in the 2017-22 period (NGW Feb.2'15).