Offshore Resources: Digging Up the Facts
By Robert L. Bradley, Jr.
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's proposal to expand offshore oil and natural gas drilling has set off a bipartisan uproar among politicians and pundits from coastal states.
Critics paint pictures of black beaches, tar balls, and wildlife slicked with oil. They point to the damage done from the wreck of the Exxon Valdez and the more recent explosion of Deepwater Horizon.