Bush Misses Key Opportunity on Offshore Energy, IER Renews Call to Eliminate Executive Ban
June 18, 2008
Washington, DC – President Bush today called on Congress to repeal its 27 year-old ban offshore energy production, but stopped short of eliminating the executive moratorium on production originally established by his father in 1990. The Institute for Energy Research (IER) urged the president last week to exercise his authority to eliminate that ban [...]