Senator: Keep rigs out of Gulf

U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) is leading a bipartisan effort urging the Trump Administration to keep offshore oil drilling rigs out of the eastern Gulf of Mexico and away from Florida's coast. In a March 24 letter to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, Nelson and others from the Florida delegation urged the administration to maintain the current moratorium on offshore oil drilling in the eastern Gulf for at least the next five years. (Source: WDBO 03/24/17)