8-9-12 – Governors Hit Obama’s OCS Policy

Houston Chronicle by Jennifer Dlougy.  The Obama administration ignored the wishes of coastal leaders when assembling a plan for offshore drilling near their shores, a group of Republican governors from Texas, Louisiana and other states says.  In a letter to President Barack Obama Wednesday and obtained exclusively by Hearst Newspapers, the pro-drilling governors say they are "concerned about the lack of communication from the federal government on critical matters that affect our coastal development."  (Note:  The letter, among others, was signed by Alaska Governor Sean Parnell and Texas Governor Rick Perry - NGP [...]