When the Minerals Management Service requested comments on the proposed 2010-2015 offshore drilling plan, American Solutions swung into action. It mobilized its base of activists and generated almost 90,000 letters in support of the planned exploration policy, hoping to influence Congress and the White House to loosen restrictions on drilling and production. That contributed to an overwhelmingly positive response to the proposal — which American Solutions only discovered when it pried the information from the Obama administration through a FOIA request earlier this year. [...] Read the rest »
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