President Obama reinstates moratorium on offshore drilling

Which never should have been dropped in the first place:

But the White House, in its latest five-year plan proposal, also intends to place all of the East Coast off limits to exploration, reports The New York Times. The ban on West Coast drilling also would be maintained.

And this is one good reason why these decisions simply cannot be left up to individual states:

Virginia had been toying with the idea of supporting drilling efforts off of Hampton Roads. But that had some North Carolina officials, especially those in the Outer Banks, worried about what an accident could mean for the region’s vital tourism industry.