Wall Street Journal | Obama Administration to Propose New Offshore Areas for Oil and Gas Drilling Wall Street Journal The government's plan, which must go through a public comment period before becoming final, represents a sort of middle ground between what the oil and natural-gas industry wanted and what environmentalists have called for. The final plan could be ... Obama's Oil Complex U.S. Seen Limiting Oil Drilling in Arctic, May Open Atlantic White House to propose allowing oil drilling off Atlantic coast |