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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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    Oil, Gas and Wind on America's Atlantic Coastline
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    3. 42:57Western Diplomats Close Embassies, Scramble to Leave Yemen
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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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      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

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    The full episode

    2 of 3
    Oil, Gas and Wind on America's Atlantic Coastline
    1. 1:47Obama Makes Formal War Authorization Request against ISIS
    2. 8:38In the Atlantic Ocean, Is It Both Oil and Wind?You’re reading this
    3. 42:57Western Diplomats Close Embassies, Scramble to Leave Yemen
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