California Vows to Resist Trump’s New Offshore Drilling Policy

Democrat-dominated California is determined to resist a new Trump administration policy that would open the Outer Continental Shelf for offshore drilling for oil and gas.
Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke announced in a statement Thursday that the Department of the Interior wanted “to make over 90 percent of the total OCS acreage and more than 98 percent of undiscovered, technically recoverable oil and gas resources in federal offshore areas available to consider for future exploration and development.” The statement added: “By comparison, the current program puts 94 percent of the OCS off limits.”
California has vast offshore oil and gas resources. But the state has been broadly hostile to offshore development and exploration since an oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara in 1969, which was the worst spill in U.S. history at the time, and which helped launched the fledgling environmental movement.
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