But the blanket moratorium on all deepwater drilling does nothing to advance that goal, and in fact the de facto shallow water moratorium has even less of a nexus to the original problem.
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Mary L. Landrieu criticizes the blanket moratorium on deepwater drilling as ineffective.
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