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.
In the Atlantic Ocean, Is It Both Oil and Wind?
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Guests:
- Nicholas Kusnetz - Center for Public Integrity - @nkus
- Claire Douglass - Oceana - @ClimateClaire
- John Felmy - Chief Economist, American Petroleum Institute - @api_news
- Willett Kempton - Center for Carbon Free Power Integration, University of Delaware - @udceoe