Judge rules against Obama's deep-water drilling moratorium

The judge says the administration overreached in implementing the six-month halt. As an appeal is planned, the Interior secretary says he will issue a new order to justify the ban. A federal judge on Tuesday struck down the Obama administration's six-month moratorium on deep-water drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and suggested the federal government acted "arbitrarily and capriciously" in imposing the halt.

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