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Obama Admin Sued over Lifting of Deepwater Drilling Ban

HeadlineOct 25, 2010

The Center for Biological Diversity has filed a lawsuit in federal court to block the Obama administration from lifting the moratorium on deepwater oil drilling. The suit charges that Interior Secretary Ken Salazar violated the National Environmental Policy Act by failing to prepare an environmental impact statement before he lifted the ban on drilling.

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