House Democrats are demanding an explanation from the Trump administration for the hundreds of times the Interior Department has allowed energy companies to deviate from a key offshore drilling safety rule
are demanding an explanation from the Trump administration for the hundreds of times the Interior Department has allowed energy companies to deviate from a key offshore drilling safety rule.that Interior’s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement granted nearly 1,700 waivers over 20 months to provisions of the Well Control Rule, a set of safety standards the Obama administration devised after the 2010 explosion of BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico.
Democrats on the committee had previously spoken out against Interior’s proposed loosening of some of the Obama-era rules, “but yesterday’s story indicates that BSEE is not waiting to complete the formal rulemaking process before effectively negating parts of the [rule],“ the letter continues.The committee asks BSEE to submit documents by March
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