Obama drilling plan called ‘troubling’ job killer

Published April 26, 2016 8:15pm ET



The Obama administration’s latest five-year offshore oil and gas plan is worrying industry groups representing some of the largest segments of job creation and investment in the country, as the Interior Department holds its last public meeting on the plan in Washington on Tuesday.

“We continue to be troubled by the administration’s short-sighted policy of limiting oil and natural gas production on federal lands,” the American Chemistry Council said ahead of the meeting.

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