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Business leaders and environmentalists, between those who would claim drilling is a cure-all and those who would claim it has no place. because this issue s just too important to allow our progress to languish while we fight the same old battles over and over again. the president s announceme m sparks some immediate outrage among environmentalists and democratic lawmakers, at least some of them. brian todd is working that part of the story. what are you hearing? we re hearing pretty serious warnings about the potential disruption of marine life along the east coast if it happens. and opponents say it isn t just an environmental risk, but an economic one as well. reporter: the prospect of oil platforms off the coast of virginia, the white house believes it s a way to possibly expand american production of oil, while competing nations are furiously grabbing other sections of underwater shelves. environmentalists say it s not worth the risk. imagine that you had a business here, s ....