A new Interior Dept. rule largely echoes changes made in the wake of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster that were later walked back under the Trump administration.
The 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil-well blowout caused dramatic, widespread shoreline loss along Louisiana’s coast, says a new study by the U.S. Geological Survey and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
In a report released on April 17, a group of former BP oil-spill commissioners gave Congress low marks for failing to enact substantive reform to make offshore drilling safer.
