Environmentalists boycott offshore drilling hearing.
16th Nov 2006, 16:45 GMT
Environmentalists boycotted a public hearing Wednesday on plans to open a new area off the Florida Panhandle to oil and natural gas drilling as a protest against what they said were efforts to unfairly squelch opposition.
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