Florida's senators and representatives are right to be indignant about drilling off Florida’s coast — but it shouldn’t stop ...

As members of Congress head home to Florida for the holidays, a bipartisan fight is intensifying over the future of offshore drilling in the Gulf.

This comes after the Trump administration recently announced new oil drilling off the coasts of California and Florida for the first time in decades.

California Offshore Oil Fight FILE - A worker removes oil from the sand at Refugio State Beach, north of Goleta, Calif., May 21, 2015. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File ...

The Trump administration is proposing to open a large area of Florida's Gulf coast to offshore oil drilling. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis opposes the plan, citing a 2020 Trump memorandum that protected ...