Bureau of Ocean Energy Management

Shore lawmakers and environmental activists are getting their wish when it comes to the controversial plan to allow offshore oil drilling off the Atlantic coast. Well, part of it, anyway. Federal officials have announced a public hearing on the plan to be held in Atlantic City next week...

New Jersey's delegation in Washington, DC, is joining forces in asking the Obama Administration to "kill the drill." The #KillTheDrill campaign refers to the Department of the Interior's newly-released Oil and Gas Leasing Draft Proposed Program for 2017-2022 (DPP), which would allow for oil and gas drilling exploration in parts of the Mid- and South Atlantic Ocean...