Congress and Bush admin push to open offshore areas to drilling

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Florida, Come and Rock the Offshore Shot

Offshore drilling is the new ANWR. With the fight to pry open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge having stalled out (at least for the time being), the oil and gas industry and its cronies in Congress are now focused on parts of the outer continental shelf that have been off-limits to drilling for nearly 25 years. Muckraker examines a raft of recent bills and plans that would sink new oil drills into offshore areas from Florida to Alaska.

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