NJ environmentalist says Obama administration going in ‘wrong direction’ on offshore drilling
By APTuesday, April 27, 2010
NJ environmentalist: Coastal drilling wrong answer
NEWARK, N.J. — A New Jersey environmentalist says President Barack Obama’s administration is “going in the wrong direction” by promoting oil and gas exploration in the Atlantic Ocean.
Jeff Tittel of the New Jersey Sierra Club says the government should be promoting clean energy and green jobs, not oil drilling off the coast.
He was among the first to testify at a federal Minerals Management Service hearing in Newark on Tuesday.
Obama last month announced an expansive new policy that could put new oil and natural gas platforms in waters along the South Atlantic coast from central Florida to Delaware.
The president said expanding domestic production of oil will lessen America’s foreign dependence on energy. Last week’s explosion at an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico has renewed concerns about offshore drilling.
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