Who supports all these Environmental groups filing the lawsuits?
Democrats. The Democrats plan: Let the Environmental Groups do the dirty work and take the fall so the Democrats still look good in the Amertican Publics eyes.. Related: Democrats Still Aren’t Serious About Drilling Monday, November 24, 2008 Fox News Oil and gas companies appeared to score an all-out victory over the summer when President Bush lifted an executive ban on offshore drilling and congressional Democrats let a moratorium expire soon after. But those who think nothing stands between oil rigs and the outer continental shelf are dead wrong. “Every lease that has been granted in the last several years has been immediately challenged in the lawsuits 100 percent,” said Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C. When the ban was lifted, the federal government was permitted to sell drilling leases three miles off the nation’s coastlines, free of state objections. The Interior Department has already started surveying the water and has drawn up maps for lease sales. So far, the government has collect
