{"id":18354,"date":"2020-09-28T06:37:49","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T03:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/trump-extends-drilling-ban-off-north-carolina-virginia-until-2032\/18354\/"},"modified":"2020-09-28T06:37:49","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T03:37:49","slug":"trump-extends-drilling-ban-off-north-carolina-virginia-until-2032","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/trump-extends-drilling-ban-off-north-carolina-virginia-until-2032\/18354\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Extends Drilling Ban Off North Carolina, Virginia Until 2032"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>NEWPORT NEWS, Va., Sept 25 (Reuters) \u2013 U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he had extended a ban until 2032 on oil drilling off the coast of North Carolina and Virginia, weeks after a similar extension affecting offshore drilling in the waters off Florida, Georgia and South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m extending the moratorium to North Carolina and Virginia,\u201d Trump said to applause at a campaign rally in Newport News, Virginia.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration, which has worked to expand U.S. oil and gas drilling and roll back Obama-era rules on pollution from fossil fuels, originally wanted to expand offshore drilling off many of America\u2019s coasts, including Florida.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>But proposals for drilling off Florida prompted <a href=\"https:\/\/gcaptain.com\/trump-yanks-florida-from-offshore-drilling-plan-after-objections\/\">fierce opposition<\/a> from tourism, real estate, and environmental interests.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The latest decision could help Republican U.S. Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina, who is trailing his Democratic challenger, former state senator Cal Cunningham, ahead of the Nov. 3 elections. (Reporting by Jeff Masson in Newpoer News, Virginia, and Valerie Volcovici in Washington; Writing by Mohammad Zargham; Editing by Sandra Maler)<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><em>(c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2020.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>gCaptain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWPORT NEWS, Va., Sept 25 (Reuters) \u2013 U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he had extended a ban until 2032 on oil drilling off the coast of North Carolina and Virginia, weeks after a similar extension affecting offshore drilling in the waters off Florida, Georgia and South Carolina. \u201cI\u2019m extending the moratorium to North &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[1736,411,1516,2257,1416,3164,3397],"class_list":["post-18354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marine-world","tag-ban","tag-carolina","tag-drilling","tag-extends","tag-north","tag-trump","tag-virginia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/18355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}