Opponents of offshore oil and gas drilling scored a victory with the election Nov. 7 of Democrat Ralph Northam to be Virginia’s next governor.
Northam defeated Republican Ed Gillespie, a vocal supporter of offshore oil drilling and two pending pipeline projects.
President Donald Trump directed the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management in April to reconsider, and possibly revise, the Obama administration’s decision to hold off on leasing for oil and gas drilling off the Atlantic Coast from Delaware to Florida. Northam backed the Obama’s plan and opposed Trump’s directive to reconsider ...
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