Trump admin. moves to give oil and gas companies more flexibility in meeting safety requirements imposed after the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon explosion, which was the worst offshore oil disaster in US history.
Interior Secretary David Bernhardt said in a statement the administration was acting to eliminate"unnecessary regulatory burdens while maintaining safety and environmental protection offshore."
A boat makes its way through crude oil that has leaked from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead in the Gulf of Mexico on April 28, 2010 near New Orleans, Louisiana.Officials estimate the Trump administration revisions will save the oil industry over $1.5 billion over the next 10 years. Conservation groups say the toll to wildlife included more than 1 million dead birds, and the government declared a fisheries disaster. BP says its costs in the blowout and spill continue to mount, and have topped $60 billion.
Vuong Vo, 31, who traveled to Port Fourchon from New Orleans for a kayaking tournament, said his father, a shrimper, was left with permanent skin and nasal problems after a few months working on the cleanup after Deepwater Horizon.The Trump administration and oil industry say the revised rule preserves 80 percent of the Obama-era regulation.
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