Not with actions like this...
A U.S. district judge rejected a federal agency's plans Friday to renew oil and gas leases off the California coast, and she ordered a new round of environmental reviews.
The decision in Oakland by Judge Claudia Wilken against the U.S. Minerals Management Service's proposed extension of the 36 leases off Santa Barbara, Ventura and San Luis Obispo counties is a blow to Bush administration plans to keep offshore oil development alive in California.
My bold
Blow to Bush? More like a blow to the consumer.
And the reason for the blow to Bush;
Linda Krop, the chief counsel for the Environmental Defense Center in Santa Barbara, said the issue was more about establishing precedent law than siphoning oil.
You would think we would already know what the environmental marine impact is by now. It's not like this is the first time.