Drilling? Expect few to dive in

Published Wed, Jan 24, 2018 · 09:50 PM

New York

THE Trump administration's move to open nearly all of America's coastal waters to oil and gas drilling would give energy companies access to more than 1 billion acres off the Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic coasts.

President Donald Trump's plan upends a decades long effort to balance the nation's energy needs with protecting ocean ecosystems, and it is meeting stiff resistance from governors up and down the coasts.