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Photo: Melody Ovard OMAO/NOAA Ship NANCY FOSTER

Just over nine years ago, a blowout at the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico killed 11 people and caused the worst marine oil disaster in history. I was so new at the Sierra Club that the catastrophe was the first issue I wrote about here. I never imagined that, nearly a decade later, we’d be up against an administration that was recklessly* determined to expand offshore drilling (and all drilling, for that matter) absolutely…

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