Environmentalists scoff, GOP shrugs at Obama's drilling plan (McClatchy Newspapers)

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's announcement Wednesday that he'll lift bans on new drilling for oil and natural gas off much of the U.S. coastline drew criticism from environmentalists and halfhearted welcomes from Republicans, even as Obama called it only one part of a broad strategy to reduce foreign oil dependence and enact climate-change policy. http://bit.ly/9b7Cal