Environmental groups sue to block Trump's offshore drilling order
Source: MSN/LA Times
Less than a week after President Donald Trump moved to open protected coastal waters to offshore oil drilling, environmental groups are pushing back with a federal lawsuit.
The suit, filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Alaska, claims Trump has no legal authority to undo protections adopted by President Barack Obama.
Obama in 2015 and 2016 withdrew waters in the Arctic Ocean and off the Atlantic Coast from future oil and gas leasing.
Trump's April 28 executive order calls for the Interior Department to "give full consideration" to revising oil and gas leasing schedules to includes those areas. Although the order does not mention California, it also opened the door to more offshore drilling on the West Coast.
Read more: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/environmental-groups-sue-to-block-trumps-offshore-drilling-order/ar-BBAIhIq
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All we need is another Santa Barbara, in other areas of Calfornia's Pacific Coast line...
