Commentary: Save the California coast
by Leon E. Panetta, Los Angeles Times
Feb 13, 2018
3 minutes
More than 35 years ago, I worked with my Republican colleagues in both houses of Congress to impose a moratorium on offshore oil drilling in federal waters along the California coast. We understood that drilling posed too grave a threat to the state's coastline, one of the nation's greatest natural and commercial assets.
Now that moratorium is at risk. In January, U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke proposed opening up nearly the
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