(Source: Robert Menendez) Menendez & Booker Lead Senate Letter Against Oil & Gas Drilling off the East Coast August 8, 2014 NEWARK, NJ - U.S. Senators Robert Menendez (D-NJ) Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Edward Markey (D-MA) led a letter sent to U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Sally Jewell requesting the continuation of the longstanding protections against offshore oil and gas drilling in federal waters off the Atlantic Coast in the Department's 2017-2022 Five Year Leasing Program. "As we saw with the BP oil spill in the Gulf in 2010, oil spills offshore of one state can easily affect other states," the Senators wrote. "Fishing off our states produces roughly $1.75 billion in direct value...
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