New York Governor Requests To Exclude State From Offshore Drilling Program

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on March 9 said he had formally asked for the state to be excluded from a federal offshore drilling program that he said would threaten its ocean resources and endanger efforts toward a cleaner energy economy. "New York State strongly opposes the Department of the Interior's National Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program as it poses an unacceptable threat to New York's ocean resources, to our economy and to the future of our children," Cuomo said in announcing the exclusion request. The five-year program, launched by the federal government in early January, proposes to make over 90% of the total U.S. offshore acreage available to oil and gas drilling. The plan would open two areas of the North Atlantic coast adjacent to New York State for fossil fuel exploration, according to a statement from Cuomo's office.
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