Virginia lawmakers are lining up behind federal legislation that would open the state’s coastline to oil drilling, despite President Obama’s insistence that offshore exploration should be limited to the Gulf Coast and Alaska.

Virginia’s two Democratic U.S. senators, Mark Warner and Jim Webb, are co-sponsoring the legislation, which would alter Obama’s five-year blueprint by allowing oil drilling along the Atlantic coast. The president ruled out drilling in the Atlantic after the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

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