The U.S. government will immediately appeal a U.S. judge’s ruling Tuesday against the Obama administration’s six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling in the wake of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

“The president strongly believes … that continuing to drill at these depths without knowing what happened does not make any sense, and puts the safety of those involved … and the environment in the Gulf at a danger that the president does not believe we can afford right now,” White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said. Get the full story »