Obama to suspend oil drilling in Arctic Ocean

May 27, 2010

Anchorage Daily News

STEVEN THOMMA

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration today will suspend planned exploratory oil drilling in the Arctic Ocean off Alaska until at least 2011, a casualty of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

The suspension will be part of a report that Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will give to President Barack Obama, who's likely to address the suspension as well as other proposals stemming from Salazar's report, at a White House news conference today.

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