Excerpted from the Daily Pilot
By Sara Cardine
Following the oil spill reported Saturday off Huntington Beach, a contingent of Orange County elected officials are calling on members of Congress to not only ban new offshore drilling off California’s coastline but end all such operations in federal waters.
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Assemblywoman Cottie Petrie Norris (D-Laguna Beach) held a virtual media briefing Thursday during which she described recent events as “our worst fears come to life.”
“We all recognize that this disaster is a call to action,” she said. “It is our job to ensure that a disaster like this one does not occur again on our watch — it is past time to end offshore drilling along our treasured coast.”
Those assembled urged support for legislative efforts already proposing such curtailments.