Coast Watch: GOP and Dem Governors Agree—Offshore Drilling Stinks

Republican and Democratic governors along both Atlantic and Pacific coasts have found a new bipartisan consensus: Offshore drilling stinks, and we don’t want it here.

Since the Trump Interior Department released its proposal to open up most of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts to offshore oil and gas drilling, every governor of a coastal state along those coasts (except Maine) has declared opposition to drilling off their states. This includes multiple governors from both major parties.

Governors are vowing to use all the means at their disposal, including administrative blocks and litigation, to keep drilling away from their shorelines and aquatic resources. One observer noted with irony that the Trump Administration’s offshore drilling expansion proposal was succeeding where his diplomatic pressures had failed, by building a “wall” of opposition along the American coastlines.

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