The Florida House is prepared to vote on a measure that would allow the governor and Cabinet to approve oil drilling as close as three miles off Florida's coast, according to this article in the Miami Herald. Proponents claim that it could be worth to Florida $6 billion a year and create more than 16,000 jobs.
[Update: The Florida Senate promptly rejected the proposal, according to this article, also from the Miami Herald.]
Not surprising that the new Administration might reconsider the issue. According to this article from the AP, Interior Department Secretary Ken Salazar has indicated that offshore oil drilling should be worked out with Congress as part of a broader energy policy and not by independent action at Interior. The 5-year drilling plan left by the Bush administration? All but dead, according to Salazar.
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