The Obama administration today proposed opening vast expanses of ocean to oil and natural gas drilling, including 167 million acres from Delaware to Florida, 130 million acres off Alaska, and more in the Gulf of Mexico. Oil companies are pleased, but residents and environmentalists are angry.


CONSEQUENCES
SCOTUS Poised to Handcuff the EPA
In the wake of reactionary rulings by the Supreme Court that seized a woman’s right to abortion after the Justices had unleashed potentially lethal freedoms to gun owners, one can only shudder at the prospect of the court’s upcoming decision on West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).