print email comment close Offshore Drilling and Exploration URL: http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/o/offshore_drilling_and_exploration/ Description: "News about offshore drilling and exploration, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times." Includes articles on President Bush's July 2008 lifting of "nearly two decades of executive orders banning drilling for oil and natural gas off the country's shoreline," and others back as far as 1981 when a Congressional moratorium on drilling was enacted. Publisher: The New York Times LII Database Information: Record 26551 created by Maria Brandt on 07/21/2008 Last modification on 07/21/2008 Published: 07/23/2008   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/26551