US EditionFlorida congressional Republicans tell Trump to keep oil drilling off state’s coasts
Florida's entire congressional delegation warns that new drilling would breach a 2020 moratorium, threaten military readiness, and jeopardize the $127.7 billion tourism industry.
- Florida's Republican congressional delegation urged President Donald Trump to uphold the moratorium and keep Florida's coasts off oil and gas leasing, citing his 2020 executive action as precedent.
- The five-year proposal unveiled last month would open the eastern Gulf of Mexico to new leases with auctions starting in 2029, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum announced.
- Lawmakers cited economic harm from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill, which wiped billions from a $127 billion tourism industry employing more than 2 million, and warned new Gulf drilling would reduce Eglin Air Force Base training.
- BOEM is accepting public comments until Jan. 23, and lawmakers warned the plan would violate President Donald Trump's 2020 executive order, with Sen. Rick Scott filing the American Shores Protection Act.
- In the broader political context, the letter merges long-standing Republican and Democratic opposition in Florida, uniting Florida's coastal cities and military testing areas against the petroleum industry, which praised the five-year leasing plan while the administration framed it as `energy dominance`.
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Florida Republican congressional members urge Trump administration to drop oil drill plans off state's coasts
Florida's Republican-dominated congressional delegation is urging the Trump administration to drop a plan that would allow new oil drilling off the state's coast.
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Florida congressional Republicans tell Trump to keep oil drilling off state's coasts
Florida’s Republican-dominated congressional delegation is urging the Trump administration to drop a plan that would allow new oil drilling off the state’s coast.
Sun-Sentinel
Florida congressional Republicans tell Trump to keep oil drilling off state’s coasts
A letter signed by Republican Sens. Rick Scott and Ashley Moody — as well as by all 28 House members from Florida — urges the Trump administration to drop plan for oil drilling off the coast.
Florida delegation warns Donald Trump against new offshore drilling plan
U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan and the full Florida congressional delegation are urging President Donald Trump to keep offshore drilling away from the state’s coastlines, pressing him to maintain a moratorium he put in place in 2020. Buchanan, co-Chair of the 30-member bipartisan delegation, joined U.S. Sen. Rick Scott and Sen. Ashley Moody in leading a letter asking Trump to uphold his executive order extending a ban on oil and gas leasing off Florida…
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