OVERSIGHT HEARING ON:

• “Deficiencies in the Permitting Process for Offshore Seismic Research”

DEMOCRATIC TOPLINE MESSAGES:

• Republicans will unjustly use a recent GAO report to attack the bedrock environmental laws that protect marine mammals and endangered species.
• Democrats are encouraged to address the bigger picture of Republicans’ never-ending attempt to satisfy the oil and gas industry’s insatiable appetite for fossil fuels by opening every acre of our oceans and coasts to exploration and development.
• The public supports protecting the environment from the destructive spills and on-shore industrialization that inevitably accompanies offshore oil and gas production.
• The Democratic witness, a South Carolina Republican State Senator, can speak to the opposition that exists within his community to Interior’s plan to hand the Atlantic coast over to the fossil fuel industry.

PRESS RELEASE:

• BREAKING: Key Administration Drilling Official Contradicts Zinke on Whether Florida Coastlines “Off the Table” for Offshore Drilling (1/19)