No Drilling in the Arctic Refuge!

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House suspends Alaska drilling push
Leaders drop Arctic oil proposal from budget bill
Thursday, November 10, 2005; Posted: 10:06 a.m. EST (15:06 GMT)

WASHINGTON (AP) -- House leaders late Wednesday abandoned an attempt to push through a hotly contested plan to open an Alaskan wildlife refuge to oil drilling, fearing it would jeopardize approval of a sweeping budget bill Thursday.

They also dropped from the budget document plans to allow states to authorize oil and gas drilling off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts -- regions currently under a drilling moratorium.

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