New Jersey is one of nine states that sued the federal government Thursday, seeking to reverse the initial approval for seismic testing off the Atlantic coast.
The incoming and outgoing governors sent a letter along with senators Booker and Menendez seeking to join Florida in being exempted from the proposed drilling.
In a major reversal, the Obama administration said Tuesday it will bar oil drilling off America's Atlantic Coast, a move cheered by environmentalists and consistent with the president's aggressive steps to combat climate change.
As a legislative tug of war over offshore drilling continues, three New Jersey Assembly Democrats have introduced a measure that opposes exploratory oil and gas drilling off the mid-Atlantic coast.
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- New Jersey's U.S. senators and two congressmen have denounced a White House draft proposal that would authorize drilling in the Atlantic Ocean.
The Obama administration is reopening the Eastern Seaboard to offshore oil and gas exploration, approving seismic surveys using sonic cannons that can pinpoint energy deposits deep beneath the ocean floor.
U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker are calling on the Obama administration to keep the Jersey Shore and the entire Atlantic Coast closed to offshore oil and gas drilling.
It's a goal that's been pushed by a lot of presidents and presidential candidates before him, but Mitt Romney says he has a plan that would make the United States energy-independent by the year 2020 -- along with Canada and Mexico.