Source: Gary D. Robertson WINSTON-SALEM JOURNAL, 2/27/18


Hundreds of environmentalists opposed to the Trump administration proposal to expand offshore drilling in the Atlantic and other ocean waters converged Monday to press their case at the federal government's only public meeting for input in North Carolina. A smaller group of oil and natural gas boosters also gathered at a Raleigh hotel holding one of the nearly two dozen "open houses" put on by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management nationwide. 

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