The United States is facing some difficult choices in the days and years ahead, both at home and abroad — but for U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, those decisions will be reached on the basis of “doing the right thing.”
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More than two-thirds of offshore leases in the Gulf of Mexico are sitting idle, neither producing oil and gas, nor being actively explored by the companies who hold the leases, according to a Department of Interior report to be released Tuesday.
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