Salazar, despite court setback, defends deepwater moratorium

US Interior Sec. Ken Salazar said a 6-month moratorium on deepwater drilling that he imposed on May 27 was justified and announced that the US Department of the Interior would appeal a federal judge’s June 22 order blocking it.

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