When it comes to national oil drilling policy, the facts on the ground have changed. Instead of leaning on the myth that technology had made oil spill disasters obsolete, the Administration must now face what could become the largest oil spill disaster in our history. Clearly this is not the time to expand drilling as if nothing had changed. The threats to places like the Arctic coast, where there isn’t a fleet of Coast Guard vessels to respond to oil spills, are too great to open up more areas to offshore drilling.
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