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America's Coasts Are No Place For Gas Drilling
Friday, June 8, 2007

Yesterday morning, Congress showed its commitment to protecting America's pristine beaches and coastlines from dirty oil and gas drilling. Members voted 39-25 to defeat an Interior Appropriations amendment introduced by Representative John Peterson (R-PA) that would have opened coastlines to natural gas exploration--a move that would effectively open the floodgates for oil drilling up and down our coasts.

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