The plan would also protect 19 rivers. It has been exhaustively vetted on the Peninsula, with support ranging from Indian tribes to small and large businesses, as well as the mayors of timber communities.
Two Republican House members from this state, Reps. Reichert and Herrera-Beutler, tell U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke: No new oil drilling off the Washington Coast.
Turning America's coastal waters over to the oil and gas industry is not healthy for states' economies or the environment, 37 senators say in a blunt letter to U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke.
A measure to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil exploration is before Congress. Similar efforts have failed in the past, but this time drilling advocates have cause for optimism.
