Source: Lynn Bonner, NEWS & OBSERVER, 4/25/19


A Wall Street Journal report that the Trump administration has indefinitely suspended its plans to allow more offshore drilling had environmentalists hoping that the idea is dead. Gov. Roy Cooper opposed plans to open waters along the North Carolina coast to drilling. Most governors along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts opposed the Trump administration plan. Some elected officials in coastal communities and business owners in those areas also fought drilling.

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