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Posted by Foon Rhee, deputy national political editor
February 10, 2009 04:04 PM
President Obama's new interior secretary announced today that he is putting on hold a plan approved by the Bush administration in its final days to open up huge stretches off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts to oil and gas drilling.
The areas included the famed Georges Bank fishing grounds off New England.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar called for more study and more input from states and coastal communities, saying that he was troubled by the "enormous sweep" of Bush's order, according to the Associated Press. To read his speech, click here.
Democrats, led by Edward Markey of Massachusetts, had tried to put Georges Bank off limits in an energy bill last September.
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