1.0 link 166283 <![CDATA[Activists Call Offshore Drilling "Flirting With Disaster"]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/12/activists-call-offshore-d_n_166283.html WASHINGTON &mdash; Environmental advocates urged Congress on Wednesday to reinstate the broad moratorium on offshore oil drilling, but a key congressman said on that issue "the ship may have already sailed."

Rep. Nick Rahall, D-W.Va., chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, said the political reality is that the broad moratorium across 85 percent of the country's Outer Continental Shelf _ lifted by Congress last fall _ is unlikely to be reimposed.

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