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End of an Era: Offshore Drilling Ban to Expire

September 29, 2008

Posted by Rob Perks in Moving Beyond Oil , U.S. Law and Policy

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drill, drilling, drillingmoratorium, energy, gasprices, ocs

At midnight on Tuesday, September 30th, the federal moratorium on drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) will be no more.  The OCS drilling ban, renewed every year by Congress since its enactment in 1981, will be allowed to lapse. ...continued

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