North Carolina governor seeks offshore drilling exemption in Zinke meeting
by Associated Press in Raleigh, North Carolina from Environment | The Guardian on (#3F13H)
- Roy Cooper: 'No safe method to drill for oil and gas off the coast'
- Interior secretary had exempted Republican-controlled Florida
North Carolina's governor said he had a good conversation on Saturday with the interior secretary, Ryan Zinke, regarding plans to expand drilling for gas and oil off the state's coast.
Related: Trump administration plans to allow oil and gas drilling off nearly all US coast
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