Environment & Energy Daily: Admin Officials Fail To Allay GOP Fears On Marine Planning
House Republicans and top Obama administration officials are butting heads over how far the administration’s new National Ocean Policy will reach. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration chief Jane Lubchenco and White House Council on Environmental Quality Chairwoman Nancy Sutley attempted to convince a room of skeptical and sometimes hostile Republicans yesterday that the administration’s policy would not create new regulations or bureaucratic hurdles…