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In the wake of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, offshore drilling "did not cause any real difficulties."
Republican John McCain on Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 in Albuquerque, N.M.
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Craig Pittman is a reporter who covers environmental issues for the St. Petersburg Times. His work won the Waldo Proffitt Award for Distinguished Environmental Journalism in Florida in 2004, 2006 and 2007, and a series of stories on Florida's vanishing wetlands that he wrote with Matthew Waite won the top investigative reporting award in both 2006 and 2007 from the Society of Environmental Journalists.
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