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Statements from Va. lawmakers
Responses to Offshore Drilling
Updated: Wednesday, 31 Mar 2010, 5:37 PM EDT
Published : Wednesday, 31 Mar 2010, 5:35 PM EDT
Reversing a ban on oil drilling off most U.S. shores, President Barack Obama on Wednesday announced an expansive new policy that could put oil and natural gas platforms in waters along the southern Atlantic coastline, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and part of Alaska.
Several Virginia lawmakers and other officials have issued reaction statements to this news. Those statements are listed below:
Congressman Robert C. "Bobby" Scott, D-3rd district
Lieutenant Governor Bill Bolling
Andrea Moran, Chesapeake Bay Foundation
Glen Besa, Director of Sierra Club Virginia Chapter
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