"Question: Can this country develop energy resources off its coasts without endangering fish and wildlife? Answer: The marine scientists and the biologists tell us definitely we can. The history of the environmental protection from drilling in the outer continental shelf has been remarkably good. We have had only two spills of more than 1,000 barrels since 1970. Of course, a Mexican offshore well went out of control in 1979...but | am advised that a huge spill would not have aaa under drilling procedures and environmental safeguards observed in U.S. waters." Interview of Interior Secretary James Watt, U.S. News and World Report, 1981 Which of the following groups would most likely have agreed with sentiments in the passage above?

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