Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/news-wrap-offshore-drilling-plan-reversed-by-obama-adminstration Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Transcript In other news Wednesday, the Interior Department said it is reversing the plan laid out last March to drill for oil off the East Coast and in the eastern Gulf of Mexico. The Obama administration unveiled the plan before the BP oil spill. The new plan means no new drilling proposals off of the East Coast for at least seven years. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors.