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In the Atlantic Ocean, Is It Both Oil and Wind?

Five years after the Gulf oil spill, the Obama Administration has opened up thousands of offshore acres from Virginia to Georgia for oil and gas drilling. It's also made the ocean available for wind farms far out at sea, abiding by the energy strategy the President calls "all of the above."

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By Warren Olney • Feb 11, 2015 • 1 min read

Five years after the Gulf oil spill, the Obama Administration has opened up thousands of offshore acres from Virginia to Georgia for oil and gas drilling. It's also made the ocean available for wind farms far out at sea, abiding by the energy strategy the President calls "all of the above." State Governors pushed for oil and gas drilling to create jobs. But environmentalists say wind would create twice the energy and twice the employment -- without the pollution or the greenhouse emissions.

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    Warren Olney

    former KCRW broadcaster

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    Andrea Brody

    Senior Producer, KCRW's Life Examined and To the Point podcast

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    Claire Martin

    Producer, To the Point/Which Way LA?

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    Benjamin Gottlieb

    Reporter, Fill-in Host

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    Nicholas Kusnetz

    Center for Public Integrity

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    Claire Douglass

    Oceana

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    John Felmy

    Chief Economist, American Petroleum Institute

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