WASHINGTON, July 12 -- A letter to the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, U.S. Department of Interior, expresses strong opposition to oil and gas lease sales in the proposed five-year Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program. The letter, authored by Heidi Eisenhour, commissioner of District 2 of Jefferson County, Washington, urges the agency to protect the waters off Washington State from oil and gas development and highlights the community's reliance on a clean coastal environme  more