North Carolina has the second-largest coastline on the Eastern Seaboard, but its boundaries extend well into the sea. The state’s administrative borders include 64 million acres in the mid-Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf, a region rich with rare ecosystems and ripe for offshore drilling. Despite yesterday’s announcement that the Obama administration has banned oil and gas exploration in the Arctic and parts ...
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