WASHINGTON, July 15 -- Sen. Mark R. Warner issued the following press release:
Today, U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA), along with Reps. Bobby Scott (VA-03), Jennifer McClellan (VA-04), Eugene Vindman (VA-07), Don Beyer (VA-08), Suhas Subramanyam (VA-10), and James Walkinshaw (VA-11) sent a letter to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) requesting a 30-day extension to the public comment period for BOEM's Request for Information and Interest (RFI) on potential leasing offshore Virginia for mineral extraction.
In a letter sent to BOEM Supervisory Oceanographer Geoffrey Wikel, the lawmakers wrote, "We write regarding the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management's (BOEM) recent publication of a Request for Information and...