It would require drilling in important fisheries and sensitive environments like Bristol Bay in Alaska and the Arctic Ocean, all without enacting key drilling safety reforms, following one of the greatest environmental disasters in our history.
Holt criticizes a bill allowing oil drilling in sensitive areas without safety reforms.
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I believe our parks are too precious a resource for us simply to abandon our responsibility in that matter.
This kind of legislation exists in a fantasy land where President Obama is somehow shutting down U.S. energy production, not in the real world.
I would add to that it is as archaic as the name suggests. This is a relic of a different era.
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