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In a stroke of good news for the Gulf Coast of Florida, the Obama Administration will announce today that it will continue to uphold the drilling ban in new Florida waters for the next seven years. We are not quite sure where they get the seven years calculated, but this reversal of an earlier White House policy (announced just prior to the Deepwater Horizon explosion) is attributed to the BP oil spill disaster, which will be an ongoing crisis affecting water quality, seafood safety, marine life, coastal environments, and community public and mental health for years to come.
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