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Jindal Challenges Drilling Moratorium

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Seeks injunction against Obama’s order.

“Drill, baby, Drill,” continues to be the Republican mantra: Perhaps seeking to upstage Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, who said on Sunday that the six-month moratorium on offshore drilling was “worse” than the oil-spill itself, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has filed an amicus brief in support of a lawsuit seeking an injunction to lift the moratorium. U.S. District Court Judge Martin Feldman has said he’ll decide on whether or not to grant the injunction by noontime Wednesday.

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