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Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday reiterated what is bipartisan opposition in Florida to a White House plan to open waters off the state’s Gulf Coast to oil drilling.

The U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management on Thursday proposed opening federal waters about 100 nautical miles off the west coast of Florida and the entire coastline of California to oil drilling as early as 2029.

DeSantis said he hoped the Trump administration would stand by a 2020 decision that the Department of the Interior made to protect waters in the eastern gulf.

“What the Interior Department is proposing to do is really to go back off that policy, and I think that would weaken protections that we worked very hard to establish offshore,” DeSanti

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