The 1st District Democrat says she's cosponsored legislation that would ban any oil drilling in the Gulf of Maine.
Maine's Congresswoman Chellie Pingree says she'll strongly oppose any effort to open the Gulf of Maine to offshore oil drilling.
The 1st District Democrat says such drilling would put Maine fishing jobs at risk. "We don't want to see what is happening in the Gulf of Mexico ever happen in the Gulf of Maine," Pingree says in a statement. "An oil spill like that one here in Maine would be devastating to the fishing economy and our environment."
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