Climate Changed
Trump Seeks to Open Most U.S. Coastal Waters to New Drilling
- Proposal includes waters off California, Florida coasts
- Environmentalists have fought expanded drilling for decades
What Trump's Offshore Drilling Plan Means for Oil Output
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The Trump administration is proposing to open almost all U.S. coastal waters to oil drilling, including those off California and Florida where activists have fought for decades to spare delicate ecosystems from oil spills.
The proposal released Thursday will go far beyond President Donald Trump’s April order directing the Interior Department to consider auctioning oil and gas leases in the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans as well as the Gulf of Mexico.