WASHINGTON – As the July 14 anniversary of President Bush’s decision to lift his office’s unilateral ban on offshore energy development approaches, the American people are no closer to accessing those abundant reserves of homegrown energy than they were last July. Recognizing this fact, and seeking an explanation for it, the Institute for Energy Research (IER) today joined more than a dozen other pro-energy organizations in asking the president to move forward aggressively with expanded domestic offshore energy production.
