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Trump Admin Recalls Workers to Assist in Offshore Oil Projects

HeadlineJan 18, 2019

Elsewhere, the Interior Department has recalled dozens of federal employees furloughed by the shutdown. The workers from the Bureau of Offshore Energy Management will assist in Trump’s efforts to expand offshore oil and gas drilling in the Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic oceans. The bureau’s offshore wind development program remains idled by the shutdown.

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