WEST MIFFLIN, Pa. — Gov. Rick Perry of Texas released a long-promised jobs and energy proposal Friday that resembles a wish list for the oil and gas industry, promising new drilling across much of the country, including in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, as well as a curtailing of environmental regulations and “dismantling” the Environmental Protection Agency.
Perry Presents a Jobs and Energy Proposal With an Oil and Gas Industry Sound - New York Times
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The plan he laid out in a speech at the United States Steel plant here contained proposals he said would free the nation from reliance on foreign energy and create 1.2 million jobs. But critics said the plan — much of which tracks a recent proposal by an oil industry trade group — would make little headway toward either goal, and they feared that it would imperil drinking water supplies and hurt the environment.Perry Presents a Jobs and Energy Proposal With an Oil and Gas Industry Sound - New York Times
