[Ost-news] Bush lifts presidential ban on offshore drilling

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Bush lifts presidential ban on offshore drilling  
By Richard Simon, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer  
12:57 PM PDT, July 14, 2008

WASHINGTON -- President Bush today lifted a long-standing presidential  
ban on new oil and gas drilling off the nation's coastlines and urged  
Congress to remove its own restrictions on offshore energy  
exploration, stoking the battle over how Washington should respond to  
high gasoline prices.

But the wall of opposition on Capitol Hill to relaxing the drilling  
ban, though softening, appeared to be holding. A congressional

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