{"id":4173,"date":"2011-04-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www-prod.greenpeace.org\/usa\/campaign-updates\/4173\/deepwater-horizon-one-year-on\/"},"modified":"2024-12-10T13:47:46","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T13:47:46","slug":"deepwater-horizon-one-year-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/deepwater-horizon-one-year-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Deepwater Horizon &#8211; One Year On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"p4descriptive_paragraph\">On March 31, three weeks before the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster, President Barack Obama announced plans to open offshore oil drilling along the east coast of the United States from Virginia to Florida and the eastern Gulf of Mexico, ending a decades-long moratorium.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>He further announced research to assess the feasibility of offshore drilling in the<br \/>Beaufort and Chukchi seas off the north coast of Alaska.<\/p>\n<p>Explaining the 2010 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