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The Plan For Offshore Drilling In North Carolina

Marianne Muegenburg Cothern

The U.S. Department of the Interior released a proposal this week that paves the way for energy companies to search for oil in the Atlantic, including off the North Carolina coast.

U.S. Senators Thom Tillis and Richard Burr support the plan, saying it will stimulate economic growth.

Environmentalists have condemned it as a shortsighted energy policy that could hurt wildlife and tourism.

Host Frank Stasio talks with WUNC environmental reporter Dave DeWitt about what offshore drilling means for North Carolina

Will Michaels

Will Michaels is WUNC's Weekend Host and Reporter.

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Frank Stasio

Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.

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