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Environmentalists dressed as polar bears, sea turtles and jellyfish were among dozens of people who packed a public hearing Thursday to press Interior Secretary Ken Salazar not to open new areas of the West Coast to oil drilling.
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In this April 13, 2007 file photo, a natural gas platform is shown off the coast of Fort Morgan, Ala. Winning bids for offshore drilling rights in the central Gulf of Mexico fell by more than 80 percent Wednesday, March 18, 2009, compared with last...
